Star Wars Blurbs

When it comes to the Star Wars sequel trilogy, we only really know three things for certain: someone's going to have a bad feeling, someone's going to lose a hand, and someone's going to get kissed. Since shipping culture is (like it or not) a huge deal within fandom, people are losing sleep over that last one. Everyone has their own OTP out of the Star Wars crew and everyone wants to see something become canon. And something will. But what? This age old question has started ship wars, something that veterans in fandom know all too well. And it really is a war because it's messy. People receive death threats, people are totally ostracized, just bickering back and forth over who's going to get kissed and why that matters to them. Then there are those who ship something (or everything) without caring about canon. Those people are magical and lucky and not me.

Here, I'd like to take a moment to go through the most common ships and theories pertaining to the sequel trilogy in order to figure out what in the hell is going to happen. Shockingly, just about everyone has their argument based around good sources. So this isn't a matter of opinion, but rather a matter of looking around and seeing what's what.

Note: I'm ignoring OT3+ ships for this post because it's my belief that Lucasfilm/Disney just flat out wouldn't have it. It would be Very Interesting if that assessment was wrong, though.

Another Note: I'm probably going to piss people off, but this article is accepting of the idea of ALL ships. The discussion is about whether they will be canon or not and why.

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