What if the Star Wars sequel was about the entire ensemble cast, men included, instead of just Rey?
That wouldn't have saved anything about it. The sequels fail at worldbuilding in a way that makes it hard to work with. A focus on Rey isn't the main problem, it's the insane power scaling, the catastrophic lack of worldbuilding and being a jumbled mess of a trilogy because there was nobody with central creative control to plot out a basic outline that the lower writers need to stick to.
JJ Abrams put in charge of a Star Wars movie was a disaster decision. Classic Hollywood. Despite Star Wars inventing the modern blockbuster, none of them understand Star Wars.
It didn't even put thing back to square one. The new republic was in power but simultaneously weak and losing, the first order came out of nowhere, and the planet sized death star is the reason i didn't even bother to watch the movie.
That wouldn't have saved anything about it. The sequels fail at worldbuilding in a way that makes it hard to work with. A focus on Rey isn't the main problem, it's the insane power scaling, the catastrophic lack of worldbuilding and being a jumbled mess of a trilogy because there was nobody with central creative control to plot out a basic outline that the lower writers need to stick to.
JJ Abrams put in charge of a Star Wars movie was a disaster decision. Classic Hollywood. Despite Star Wars inventing the modern blockbuster, none of them understand Star Wars.
The fact that episode seven puts everything back to square one the way it did almost makes me believe it was a Great Reset psyop.
It didn't even put thing back to square one. The new republic was in power but simultaneously weak and losing, the first order came out of nowhere, and the planet sized death star is the reason i didn't even bother to watch the movie.