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This sounds interesting to me. Could you explain further what you mean by this?
Sure.
In the realm of JRPGs, Final Fantasy is a Genre, not a Setting. Each Final Fantasy that comes out makes the deliberate and now expected choice to not be related in any literal, direct way to any other final fantasy (exceptions apply, they prove the rule). What happens to the story in each game is that it's a unique, closed story that takes however long it wants to tell itself, and it leans on nothing else to form its own backbone and narrative. It's just a nice, standalone adventure.
As a franchise, what marks each final fantasy as being related is, instead of direct continuity, a big pile of tropes and structure choices and aesthetics or art design. Most final fantasies have a team of heroes with unclear goals and pure-ish hearts. Most final fantasies have a focus on four elemental powers holding the structure of the world. Most final fantasies have an airship piloted by a dude named Cid. Most final fantasies are concerned with a plot to save the world in its time of peril/decline. Most final fantasies have giant ride-able chickens. Most final fantsies have a big flaming bull dude named Ifrit and if you try hard and believe in yourself you can make him show up and punch somebody. Most final fantasies have a dude named Biggs and Wedge.
When you play a final fantasy cold, you get introduced to all these things for the first time. When you play the others, you get to see new iterations that are both new and familiar. They still tell their own story, and do it without any real relation to each other, but you can rely on all of these things to help set the tone of the world and help set your own expectations for what you'll find.
So when I say star wars needs to be Final fantasied, I mean that we need new star wars films that just... Don't take place in the Skywalker galaxy. Make a new star wars movie that just tells a new story. The skywalker movies aren't intrinsically necessary to have a Star Wars movie. Star Wars movies have Ww2 dog-fighting laser planes. They have swashbuckling laser duelists. They have space wizards with magic powers. They have an opening title crawl that sets up the stakes and the world.
Make each movie takes place in some different aesthetic setting--this movie is in space. This movie is in a more literal fantastical WW2 (Do you want to see an eye-patched pilot lady in a bomberjacket shooting dayglo pewpews out of the side of a B-52 while laser-swording a boarding party? I do!) Each movie has different guys named Seethreepio and Artoodeetoo following the heroes.
Use Star Wars as a genre and aesthetic choice instead of one beholden to any kind of sequential continuity.
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