All valid questions that were even presented in Force Awakens in a way that implied there was going to be further explanation into them, but then you'll have people state "Look back on the original trilogy. Who was the Emperor? They never explained who he was. Why are Luke and Leia siblings all of a sudden? The idea of Vader being Luke's father wasn't the idea at the start, he and Anakin were separate people, until Empire. The original trilogy made it up as they went along too."
Sure, that may have been the case, but George still had an outline for the trilogy overall, some tidbits were reworked around Vader being Anakin and Luke and Leia being siblings, but it worked, because there was just enough information provided in A New Hope that when those revelations came to be in Empire it still added up and if there were any inconsistencies, they could be further explained in ROTJ. Obi Wan to Luke "He was seduced by the dark side, he ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darthvader when that happened the good man who was your father was destroyed. What I told you was true from a certain point of view."
Force Awakens presented a lot of questions, The Last Jedi just threw them in the shredder. People are praising this because IT WAS SO UNEXPECTING!!!!!!!! No, it is bad writing and bad storytelling. I don't expect every detail spelled out for me, like I don't care about how Maz came in contact with the lightsaber.
What needs to be explained is Who is Snoke? Why does it seem like Kylo Ren was somehow communicating with Vader? Who and where are the Knights of Ren? How did the First Order come into power? Why did Rey get that force vision? I don't need her parents to be anyone significant, but I'd like to know why other than she is the main character as to why the saber called to her? Would it have called to any Jedi in the vicinity?
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CoachGainz (453)
7 years ago
IT just seems to me that JJ is a far superior film maker to RJ a real genius when it comes to sparking interest. I wanted to see the TLJ so bad after the TFA and now the only reason I have to look forward to E9 is because JJ is coming back hopefully to save star wars for the 2nd time.
RJ had no idea what to do with all of those ideas set up in TFA. That's not his style of thinking so he trashed it all. His conclusions to all the questions were the laziest weakest path anybody could have taken. A talent film maker would have made a movie that truly paid off. Anybody can just throw ideas out the window. What kills me the most is people are hailing it as unexpected and surprising. Lucas film should have at-least had JJ write the story or an outline for TLJ.
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