Luke & Anakin's New Story Makes The Star Wars Sequels Worse In 4 Ways

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Luke and Anakin are set to team up in a new Star Wars book, Shadow of the Sith, and there are four distinct ways in which that makes the sequel trilogy even worse. The sequel trilogy has been controversial from conception for a variety of reasons, and two of them have been their handling of Luke’s character and their lack of handling of Anakin’s. Shadow of the Sith will draw attention to both characters, and in doing so, it’ll make their treatment in recent years even worse in hindsight.

Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith is an upcoming Star Wars book that is set to explore Luke and Lando’s investigation into Exegol that was talked about in The Rise of Skywalker. In an excerpt published on the Star Wars website, Luke accidentally projects himself to Exegol and gets into a seemingly unwinnable fight with a group of mysterious Sith wraiths, but he’s saved by the Force ghost of his father, Anakin. The full extent of Anakin’s role in the story is unknown, but it still marks one of the few times Anakin is explicitly seen or mentioned as himself, and not Darth Vader, in the sequel era of Star Wars.

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Whatever story is being set up for Luke and Anakin in Shadow of the Sith, one thing that’s clear is that it makes the sequels even worse in a variety of ways. Just from the excerpt that’s been given, Luke’s self-imposed exile seems even harsher in hindsight, as does Anakin’s lack of relevance in the sequels, and it makes The Rise of Skywalker’s depiction of Exegol worse by, oddly enough, depicting the planet more interestingly. The goal of Shadow of the Sith is likely to answer a lot of questions that were left unaddressed in the sequels, but in doing so, it might end up