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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I didn't spell it out in my original quote, but yeah, this is exactly what i meant by "inconsistent structure", since there was basically no guidelines that each writer/director has to stick to. The effect being it feels like reading one of those "Let's write a story 3 words at a time" topics when watching TFA and TLJ back-to-back.

It's interesting that when fans started throwing tantrums about how Snoke winds up just being an unexplained punk and Rey's parents are nobodies, Rian Johnson basically came out and openly said those questions had never had answers in the first place (or if they did, no one ever bothered telling him), so it was up to him to explain them.

Which is part of why I suspect the next movie may reveal that there was more to Snoke than we know, or that Snoke was lying about who Rey's parents were, because there's enough flexibility there for them to retcon pretty much anything.

Which is also why Mass Effect springs to mind. It's basically been openly admitted that no one had any idea what the Reapers' motivation was when they did the first game, because they never really thought there were going to be more games. Then, when they DID start thinking about making more games, they found themselves painted into a corner, and had to come up with explanations that wound up being inherently shit because they were shoehorned in rather than being organically part of the plot from the beginning.



CyborgSage00x0 posted...

especially now that JJ is doing IX. Is he going to have blue balls for not being able to write the conclusion he was likely imagining (since TLJ likely derailed it), or will be somehow try and make a salad out of the leafy fragments that he has to now work with?

I think you're vastly overestimating him in assuming he had anything resembling a conclusion in mind in the first place, considering we ARE talking about one of the major people behind Lost.

I think he just took a contract job from Disney to make Episode VII, and he helped come up with the new characters and ideas completely extrapolated from the original trilogy (and with a few ideas stolen from the smoking ruin of the EU), and then completely stopped giving a shit. He assumed that either Disney or the directors who followed after him would take the building blocks he left them and build something out of them, and that lack of having any actual plans or endgame in mind is why Last Jedi was what it was.

Now that he's back to do Episode IX, I assume he's desperately scrambling for something resembling an ending, which will probably wind up being derivative again because the lesson Disney probably walked away from this with is that Star Wars fans hate new ideas.


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