Star Wars Episode VIII to be "much darker" in tone

[Fei-Hung]

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!


I think TFA was more a mixture of A New Hope and Empire than what most people say it being a remake of 4. If you think about it :

1) learning Solo is Kylo's father
2) Solo falling to his death in a similar fashion to Luke at the end of Empire
3) Rey leaving everything to unite with a jedi master on another planet to save the galaxy
4) Kylo leaving to complete his training as he wasn't ready yet (Like wasn't ready either when he lost to Vader)
5) Fin wanting to leave but his best friend in danger bringing him back just like Solo at the beginning of Empire.

I also think people underestimate how dark TFA was compared to new hope:

1) Han and Leia having broken up
2) their son having turned evil and gone off on a killing spree after being recruited by a genocidal evil empire
3) Han dying (Obi Wan died half way through a new hope, Han has been with us since A New Hope)
4) Kylo potentially being lost for good after killing his dad

Makes you think how they can make it darker unless they kill more characters. I hope and pray they don't make the third part of the trilogy like Return with Rey fighting Kylo and turning Kylo over to together defeat Snoke.

I can see:

1) Leia being killed since she lost Solo and was the one who convinced him to bring their son back
2) I can see Chewie dying
3) I can see Fin being captured and Rey having to rescue him
4) Long shot, but I think episode 8 might be a bit of episode 5 and episode 3. I can see Kylo flashbacks on how things went wrong and what dove him to the darkside and how Luke and Solo stepped in to stop him.