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DarkRoast posted...

I honestly don't think he's any more at fault than Abrams.

If you think about it, Abrams gave him nothing to work with. The Force Awakens was almost literally just a retread of A New Hope. It had nowhere to go except "the dark, subversive sequel" route like Empire. And you can't just do another Empire. So instead TLJ was sort of an anti-empire.

I don't think it's unreasonable to say he's more at fault for the tonal inconsistency when you had one director managing the tone of the movie before and after his who also gave him a detailed outline of things he was planning on carrying forward. Johnson could still have told his story without seemingly going out of the way to kill every single dangling plot thread from the first movie for no reason other than to laugh at the people who had fan theories over them.