starwars-hell:

Thanks to Chuck Wendig and his new novel Aftermath: Empire’s End, we finally have canonized hamsters new Sequel Trilogy lore to analyze.

While several novels have been released over the course of the last year, Empire’s End is, in my opinion, the most substantial to date for insight into the direction of the Sequel Trilogy and its characters. Quite literally blowing open the “Jakku Mystery,” this novel also provides some additional insight into Snoke, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren and Gallius Rax’s fate.

As I masochistically subject myself to the slew of past and present tense that is Chuck Wendig’s writing, I will attempt to analyze the mythical lore of the Sequel Trilogy and in doing so, delineate that which is critical to the sacred canon.  I will post the remainder of this meta under the read-more, as it’s very long and it contains spoilers.

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This is a massive post but it’s very good.
Every once in a while I find SW fans who are actually capable of deep analysis and that’s very exciting.
Anyways these are great theories and you should read through this.