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(I am posting this here because I spend a bit of time typing it, but the thread it was going into closed. I just wanted the ideas out there before being lost)
If Star Wars VII is a sequel dealing with Luke Skywalker's or Princess Leia's children, how will it end up?
Luke was the last of the Jedi according to Yoda. Thus they have to start over again. Luke was quickly trained and did not get all the leasons (especially history leasons in the Jedi Code and such) a regular Padawan would have had growing up at the Jedi Temple in the Galactic Republic. What we are likely to get are the first or second generation of new Jedi taught under Luke Skywalker. Probably focusing on the next Skywalker in the line (be it a Skywalker or a Solo). Current rumor is that is will be focused on Leia's daughter who would be in her late 20s or maybe early 30s by the time the film comes out (around the age of Obi-wan Kenobi in the Phantom Menace). If it is Luke's son, he would be much younger, maybe a late teen or young 20s at the most (following current EU version of these characters, which if they want to use Mark Hamil, is actually exactly were they need to be presently).
However if it is to be a trilogy, there needs to be a war going on (it is called "Star Wars" after all). There need to be a overall plot going on. The traditional themes are Good and Evil as well and the Hero's Journey. We have had the rise and fall (and redemption) of Anakin Skywalker told in six films. We've had the Hero's Journey of Luke Skywalker told in three films. So, what is next for the Skywalker clan? Luke will likely be the mentor character (if they go that route) and probably die in the first film like Qui-Gon and Obi-wan did in the prior trilogies. The Galactic Empire did not end with the death of Palpatine and Vader. You don't wipe out a Galaxy spanning Empire quite that quickly. Though by the time the films should take place, the Remains of the Empire and the New Republic are more or less unified.
If one uses political climate for the films, it could be easy to have there be another conflict started by political factions within the Galactic Alliance. Those form the Republic and those from the Empire. At some point, it is assumed the Republic will weaking again, or seem blindingly ineffective as a form of government (in terms of getting anyting done in the Senate) and the Imperials will break off again, but this time without the Sith. The conflict, for the Jedi, will be something about their nature. Luke was trained to fight Vader...he was not trained in all the Jedi arts. He's got to wing it. So what you might get it a brake in the Jedi Order. Those that want to negotiate passively, and those that prefer to end disputes with a lightsaber. The balance of the Force is not all Light...there must also be Darkness...the shadow cast by the Light. Maybe not a new Sith, but a balance of ideas within the Jedi Order. A balance that might take three films to achieve within the scope of the conflict (those that are too heavy on one side of the other might throw off the balance if they aren't counters by an opposing Force. The middle ground makes for Balance, but takes a special kind of Jedi that can walk in both the Light and the Dark without corruption.
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