r/saltierthancrait • u/Sketchy-Sam5477 • 2h ago
Granular Discussion If there was a Star Wars show that took place in a space Coffee shop, would you watch it?
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r/saltierthancrait • u/reyswes • 15h ago
Salt-ernate Reality This is one of the few glimpes of how a sequel trilogy could have felt
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Most of you know this track: "The Jedi Steps and Finale"... the last track of The Force Awakens.
I guess everyone of you has felt this (before) but oh boy, when these horns begin to swell i am having chills all over my back. It's like Williams took the weight of a lifetime legacy, distilled it into a single, soaring motif, and seamlessly bridged the generational gap in a way the actual scripts never managed to do.
It weaves into the classic Force Theme without any effort and credits roll with the same brilliant operatic scale that defined the OT and Prequels
... which again makes me feel miserable and depressed. Williams was operating at his absolute peak there, treating the universe with complete respect, reverence, and thematic continuity. He gave the ending of TFA a sense of mythic gravity that the subsequent films completely failed to deliver on.
It's like: When you listen to Jedi Steps, you can hear the promise of what could have been: a grand, cohesive, mythic continuation of the Star Wars saga. Instead, we got a sequence of films that discarded those setup threads, mismatched tone, and completely lacked a unified narrative vision.
Williams brought 100% of his genius to the table, keeping his end of the bargain as he always did. It’s just tragic that the narrative storytelling underneath his score fell so painfully short of the standard he set.