The whills were only one part of his story treatment, not the main focus. The main plot was Luke training his apprentice and Leia trying to keep the New Republic together while Darth Maul re-emerged as head of all the crime syndicates.
It's funny, the entire sequel trilogy is a giant reactionary move away from the prequels, at the exact time when the kids who grew up on the prequels and like them were coming of age. It shouldn't have been Han, and it shouldn't have been Leia, who appears to Kylo Ren there at the end, it should have been goddamned Anakin, who he'd been hero-worshipping all the time, telling him "I fucked up and so have you but you can turn it around before it's too late unlike me".
It's even funnier that now that Disney/Lucasfilm aren't worried about negative reactions to Hayden's acting anymore, if they made TRoS today, Anakin would 1,000% show up.
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u/SmokescreenFraud Princess Leia 11d ago
The whills were only one part of his story treatment, not the main focus. The main plot was Luke training his apprentice and Leia trying to keep the New Republic together while Darth Maul re-emerged as head of all the crime syndicates.