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I'd argue that's not the problem at all.

The real problem, I think, is that they didn't have an overarching plot worked out in advance, knowing exactly what was going to happen in VIII and IX while still writing the script for VII. That leads to choppy plotting, because each film has to improvise a plot that may or may not connect to the others properly (see also, the Mass Effect franchise).

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.

I'm honestly baffled how anyone thought that was a good idea.

While I'm not champing at the bit to know how it all ends, I'm still willing to see it through (eventually). There's both good and bad in there, and if I was the sort of person who completely wrote off all of the good because the bad annoyed me, I'd have spent the last 35 years hating RotJ.

Sure, I basically have to finish something once I start it, unless it's just that god-awful (in which case I usually tap out mid way/right after the first season/film/whatever). So I'll see IX. But that's very likely where I end my escapades with the SW films going forth. I basically blatantly refuse to see Solo, since I don't want to promote Disney's continual whoring of the films, in addition to me giving no fucks about the premise of the story.

But as I said before, I see no way IX can turn out well, 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? And even if IX turns out pretty good against all reasoning, it'll have somehow manged to do that in stark contrast of the other 2 films in my eyes.
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