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BurmesePenguin posted...

People excusing The Rickrack of Skywalker with "what else could JJ do after Last Jedi" are truly, truly, the worst shillers. He could have done literally anything else. He could have made an actual movie. He could have sat down with a team of writers and taken the time to "sort out the mess" if such a mess existed. If it was unsalvegable as some people seem to think, Disney could have stepped in and changed the release plan so that people all over the world were not made to pay to watch a fake movie.

Literally nobody forced him do a c-tier writing plan and bring back the franchise's most popular villain from the dead. Nobody forced him to do an insane macguffin after macguffin hunt plot. A fucking knife that folds out to reveal a certain configuration of crashed materials that was rusting away in salt water and wouldn't stay the same, all to find a weird thingamagic that has the magic power to take them to the McEvil planet. What the fuck is this sunday cartoon plot? I guess I could understand people making this criticism if he made an actual movie that failed to be good, but what he did was ask a team of twitter researchers "what did people dislike about Last Jedi?" and then wrote a script based on correcting as many of those perceptions as possible.

He even wrote Rose out of the movie into an E-plot background character. I don't like Rose, but you know... write her better and she's fine. The way the character was treated in Rumble in the Skywalker was basically a reward to all the shitty humans who abused her actor online. They got exactly what they wanted. But I guess there was nothing else he could have done. His hands were tied by Rian Johnson.

Tbh I don't know how anyone can act like JJ Abrams hands were tied when he specifically took the time to outright disregard Rey's origin in TLJ to add some bullshit backstory that added absolutely nothing to Rey's character or the dilemma he was in.

Like we already had this assumption that it was going to repeat a twist like the OT. JJ Abrams specifically called back to it. By twisting the expectation that she is actually a nobody is the worst thing for Rey to hear. It's a gut punch for her and the audience. She wanted to be special and have an important reason for being ditched. That's an opportunity to show that heroes and family can come from anywhere and not only that but expand the potential stories within the Star Wars universe.

But instead JJ ignored it just to repeat the same stuff as the OT for no reason. Which not only ruined character arcs and consistency but again restricts things back to a limited number of people with the potential to be special due to being related to characters from the other movies. It's an outright reaction to surface level criticism and we know for a fact that JJ was still debating it when filming TROS which shows he never really had any strong idea on what the answer to his original mystery box was supposed to be.