Assignment 17- Sam Ederington

For more fun for this assignment, I decided to watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and compare it to the commonly known as greatest one, The Phantom Menace The Empire Strikes Back. The biggest difference between the films, for me at least, was the climactic confrontation. The Empire Strikes Back featured a highly trained professional warrior completely fallen to the dark side against a semi-trained warrior in the act of falling to the dark side. Unsurprisingly, Darth Vader won. Now, compare this with The Rise of Skywalker, where, we again see a highly trained professional master of the dark side, but this time against a pretty much completely untrained person who should have fallen to the dark side a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, with Disney at the helm, training is a sure means to failure. Another problem, which The Rise of Skywalker didn't really have to deal with, is respecting the expanded Universe. Since Disney has been shifting which parts of it are cannon constantly, this is liable to change, but there is no way Palpatine could have built the biggest fleet in Star Wars so long as Rakata remains cannon. In a fleet building competition, Darth Revan will always win.

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