For those of you who have seen the movie Looper, how would you feel if time travel played a role in the new trilogy in some way? I dunno, the idea is interesting if the execution is done right. I've done a bit of research where it has been done in other media but not formally in the movies themselves.
I was doing some thinking about how the idea of time travel could work...in a sense, without having to rip-off other movies like for example, the Terminator ones where you got a young soldier being sent back into the past to protect a certain woman from the terminator. the whole idea for the soldier to go back in time was to ensure that the mother doesn't die and therefore, as the story goes, he falls in love with her and she gets knocked up with a kid who ends up being the future resistance leader against the machines.
I don't think anyone wants to see that sort of story line where well lets see here, what if someone gets sent through time to the past to kill Anakin when he was born or whatever, or if that someone is on a mission to kill Shmi to prevent her from giving birth? well to me, I don't think I want that. Anakin, to me, is more of a victim than what people make him out to be...where he was lost and confused. While he is just as much to blame of the deeds he did whether for good or evil, let's not forget that it was Palpatine himself who was stirring the pot behind the curtains. He started it after all from the very beginning to get what he wanted so he can rise to power and play with the people around him inside their minds and hearts. He was literally pulling the strings so really, depending on how you look at it, he's the main real baddie - the monster!
Anakin was ....well he was just stuck in the middle with no way out of what he felt he could do - whether it was the right thing to do or not. I feel he knew what he was doing at the time and that if he did those things, Palpatine would give him what he promised...well look how that turned out?
Anakin lost quite a lot of his humanity because of his choices that reflected on what Palpatine wanted him to do for him and therefore, Palpatine was using Anakin for his own personal gain. You would think Anakin would be smart enough to know what he had the strength to do...and that was to not trust Palpatine. But of course Palpatine always found away to manipulate him into trusting him so...*sighs*
Anyway, getting back to the idea of time travel...what if the resistance sends someone back through time to the time before Palpatine rose to power in order for that person to stop him...? Again, it would really change the entire timeline considerably...like, if they succeeded to kill Palpatine, Anakin would cease to exist as a Jedi and become Darth Vader...and so on and forth. lol. So I can see why a lot of ppl would be against the whole time travel thing..but ...let's say...
Rey gets sent through time to the past but ends up in the wrong time line...say during the Clone Wars era or whatever...and she can't get back to the present future. So somehow, she has to find a way to get back to her time line...or how about she's not alone...like say Poe and BB-8 are with her...and Finn ends up being the one to kind of save them but somehow, it's Rey who figures out to get them back to the right time line...where a time portal of some kind appears and they have no choice but to jump through it...
I dunno, its just an idea...but then again, even if time travel does get introduced in a future SW movie, I can't see anyone try to attempt to send a certain someone back into the past. I'd rather they go forward into the future or something. I'd rather they just leave the past alone as it is...if they try to change it any way, it would upset alot of fans who feel that time travel will only muck up the existing SW time line and like me, I don't think I'd be okay with that. Either way, it would make the PT, OT and ST and anything in between the movies and trilogies very different than what exists today...to an extent.
What do you think??
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oh so that's how it works in the galaxy?
