J.J. Abrams Admits The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Needed A Plan
(boundingintocomics.com)
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I despise The Last Jedi, but I've come to appreciate how singularly destructive it truly was. Rian Johnson ripped down the foundations of the franchise in a way that didn't seem possible given the money and stakes involved. It's a perverse miracle that a filmmaker with that much disdain for the IP somehow ended up at the wheel. I don't think even Kathleen's most ardent feminist disciple could have done what Rian did. And now that I don't give two shits about Star Wars, I almost appreciate the man for opening my eyes.
To be clear: Rian could have delivered a bog standard sequel predictably following the threads established in TFA, and a lot of people would have been happier with that outcome. The soul of the franchise would still be dead at the hands of The Devil Mouse, but the corpse would've shambled on for another decade or so. Instead, TLJ straight murdered Star Wars in front of everybody. Maybe it was better that way.
I told everyone when TFA was released that it was a feminist movie with a Mary Sue. I got blasted in the comment section on my video
People are stupid. I remember when Game of Thrones destroyed their entire franchise with the 8th season, and at least 50% of the viewers didn't realize how badly everything went. Most people have zero concept of story arcs.
Imo the core story of the prequels was pretty dang gud. As far as origin stories go, which it's basically just an origin story for the empire and Vader, it was uniquely compelling and didn't feel like pointless fan service like every other shitty origin story in existence.
It was just the almost everything else about them that sucked.
And then tRoS cemented the whole sequel trilogy as literally a reboot of the original trilogy with feminism and patricide.