i said this in some other star wars thread i think when 7 first came out, but it would've been sick if they did a role reversal in 8 where rey goes bad and kylo becomes good. it would be 1000000x better then whatever "new out of nowhere very powerful bad faction" vs "small group of rebels that is connected to larger republic that just is ok with the new empire existing???" plot theyve got set up for next. like it would have added so much depth to that conflict and made it actually really interesting. it's very simple, doesn't complicate things too much, and gives everyone a reason to be invested in this conflict. honestly im really not sure what exactly has been the point of these movies beyond setting up the same old good side vs evil side except with different people and some throwbacks to the original series. i mean i guess rey is a strong female lead that young kids look up to and whatever so i see what disney wouldn't want to go for that. probably harder to sell good kylo vs rey.
it just pisses me off how awesome star wars is and how they manage to bungle the media. the films could've been so much more. they haven't been able to release a good star wars game in the past decade. bleh.
To be fair Disney was set to do good with the franchise and just be like "lets ignore any backlash to episode 8...." That is until they lost their shirt on both Solo and the Star wars land in Florida/California... Right now they are likely trying to save their asses and keep up the brand of Starwars
Which is also (To go off your Video game comment) is why they gave exclusivity rights to EA... which has backfired horribly as in the almost... decade? that they've handed the Star Wars license to EA.... EA has only gotten out two console games.... WHO I should remind you.. they own fucking BIOWARE... yknow the KOTOR people?
Now I know that the VG problem might not be 100% EAs fault but EA cancelled a shit ton of starwars games... and ive heard in some of those cancelled projects that they needed to basically get someone from Lucasarts to scrutinize over every little detail of the build... which of course would slow progress already more than normal.
Anyways Disney is in panic mode after three major failures that likely have devauled the star wars brand.... Episode 8, Battlefront 2, and Solo. This is why they are likely trying to make Episode 9 as appealing as possible, and have major reworks on other substories they had planned such as the Obi Wan Kanobi movie... this is due to those mistakes and misteps that the fans feel that theyve done to Star wars