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s0nicfan posted...

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.

I agree. But I'd argue that it truly went off-the-rails with RoS doing the same exact thing to TLJ.

You can almost justify "weird tonal shift second film" by having a third film that fuses the two themes. But that's not what Abrams did. RoS was just... so obnoxious.

The movie practically opened with "hey Rey, your parents DID matter and the Jedi ARE good and hot shot pilots ARE important and the Sith ARE back and..."