Skallagrim
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Since Snoke was such a total dud, it's fun to imagine someone like Pryde in charge of the First Order for the whole trilogy. (On that note: in the drafting process of TFA, they considered Hugo Weaving for the part of a leading antagonist. The specifics never got out, but maybe Hux was originally envisioned as an older, more experienced commander or something.)Needed more Richard E Grant. He was clearly air dropped in to be a competent, ruthless though not especially threatening villain when it became apparent no one else could do the job
Good actor, could easily have played the Tarkin role, even has that drawn cold expression. He does at least get some things right and makes life harder for the good guys which is more than most of his peers, a man who actually uses his head once or twice.
Perfectly decent secondary villain who really should have been as prominent as Tarkin was. Given he is an obvious copy
Yeah, Lucas was never into the "balance means equal Light and Dark" nonsense. And my choice of words no doubt clarifies my own position! Seems pretty clear to me that darkness is a corruption, and that balance means cleansing the Force of that corruption.A Stormtrooper--or just a general 'peon' serving the new evil force in the universe that awakens to the Force--perhaps even as a early-comer and herald to a widespread...universalization? Or at least a greater spread of active ability to use or 'recognize' Force powers and existence to people would make an interesting central conceit for the story to take as a progression (and actually would make the 'orphan boy using force powers' at the end of the second sequel-movie a more powerful 'teaser' moment, especially if it was combined with everyone else using them somehow). Lucas, to my knowledge, was never of the edgy, 'gray jedi is best jedi and all things must be balance-y like in Eastern philosophy' perspective that cropped up in the EU, and having the grand, overarching somewhat-fakeout of the 'balance' Skywalker is supposed to bring the Force being it's active spread to virtually everyone or a much larger segment of the universe so they can venture forth and be Big Damn Heroes themselves about the galaxy would be...kind of a cool take on things?
At that point it's just me haring-off into creativity-land of course. Point being--there would have been interesting places to go with the Force growing stronger/awakening (and Finn's character in particular with that).
Missed opportunities, seems like.
...But, I suppose it all makes for fanfiction fodder to look on the bright side...Wait...Is that a bright side?
The idea of the agency to do that being spread out actually fits with Lucas's stated opinions, too. He saw Qui-Gon and his adherence to the Living Force as an ideal. (Of course, Qui-Gon has also been called a 'grey Jedi' by some, but there's no doubt that the man was firmly committed to the Light.) So the notion of a new generation of Force-users going out there as knights-errant, doing good in a more decentralised way, without a Council dictating all the doctrine... that might bring the whole story full circle.
Anyway, as far as sort of fan-ficcing this all out goes: I've written up an analysis of what we know (and may reasonably suspect and infer) about Lucas's ideas for the sequels. To some extent, it lines up with what we're talking about here. I may re-post it here, and eventually add a more fan-fic-ish post-script where I take a stab at imagining what such a version of the story could have looked like.
Personally, I hope that one day, they'll give the Lucas outline for the sequels the same treatment they gave his outline for the OT, and turn it into a comic.
