I was assuming some galactic government would be established to take the place of the slowly disintegrating Empire Which may or may not be the New Republic
Well considering the New Order (or whatever it's called) is not being referred to as the Imperial Remnant, the Imperial government might not have fallen with the Emperor in the new timeline.
They won the Battle Of Endor. Not even the Extented Universe had them winning the war at that point. There was Bakura, Coruscant (more than one battle), plus others before the New Republic became properly established.
I am glad that they're filling that plot hole, I mean the thought that the Empire just sort of collapses without their two main dudes always struck me as well, dumb. Hell, I think the whole battle of Endor was a poor way to finish the series honestly, an elite unit of the most feared force the galaxy has supposedly ever known defeated... by Teddy Bears. It's rather interesting actually, this talk of Lucas making it up as he went along, because I've heard that the series could have been darker, that Luke in one version fell to the dark side, but Lucas said that ultimately the films were aimed at children and thought it too dark. Or that he wanted to kill off Han Solo in every movie, but never did. I hope Disney goes this direction, and seeing as I'm sure the squeal, or the one after, will have the Vong arriving, I think they might. Pirates of the Caribbean 1 was really good, mixing humor with somewhat dark content, hopefully they'll be able to pull something like that off. I mean, they must know how protective fanboys are, so the pressure is high, it kind of seems like they're going for a more mature audience. I mean I love Star Wars because it was cutting edge and it implied a greater universe, but it was filled with cheese. If I recall correctly, Ewoks and Jar Jar were Lucas' idea, and fans hated Jar Jar(and Ewoks maybe? I did). Since he already by popular opinion fucked up the prequels(Except III IMO), and did some atrocious editing of the originals (Han shot first ya git! Why wouldn't he?!) I think that Disney is aware that we don't want any more of the cutesy crap. The Short of It. Star Wars was great, but it had it's own mistakes. I think due to fan reaction to the Prequels they might just improve the storytelling with a more mature story. Or maybe they'll extenuate the same mistakes and I won't see the next one in theaters, only time will tell.
The original idea of Star Wars was "The Heroes Journey". Lucas had read some work on how myths and legends were constructed, with certain archetypes. One of these archetypes being "The Heroes Journey", which is Luke's journey. You must also remember that Lucas wrote the original trilogy as part of a larger story arc, from which sprung the prequels, and supposedly these new films. Originally Return Of The Jedi was supposed to be on Kasshyk with a load of Wookies. Instead we got Endor and Ewoks (maybe it was easier to find actors under 5ft than ones around 7ft). As you pointed out, Disney is responsible for the Pirates Of The Carribean movies. But they are also responsible for the recent Marvel Studios films and TV, like Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Avengers, Ant Man, The Agents Of SHIELD, and Agent Carter.
Well yeah that was more or less a joke Blowing up the Emperor doesn't blow up the Empire As cheesey as that would be
Well all the emperor and Vader really did was work together to hunt down and exterminate the last of the jedi. All of the actual goverment nonsense was handeled by the Grand Vizier, while the emperor was mainly a figure head (Though he could still force lightning the viziers ass if he wanted to.) So if there WOULD be any reaction to his and vader's death, it would go something like this... Citizens: OH THANK GOD! Military:MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE Grand Vizier: Well ballocks... Thrawn: About damn time, I was waiting for that air bag to finally keel over, oh that oversized black covered sith with a vacuum for a mouth died to?
Thrawn: Did he finally suffocate to death? The man sounded like he had trouble breathing. He had the most intense case of space asthma I have ever seen.
Personally i'm not interested until they apologise for crapping all over the Expanded Universe in their desperation to shill the new one. That or apologise for Star Wars: Aftermath. Or Rebels' moronic retcons. Or... just about everything actually.
