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Toonstrack posted...

Yep. And that's why it was such a massive success. "Fans " deride them for doing what they would've wanted them to do when it actually came out. I.e. dsmned if they do damned if they don't.

The reality is people wanted a reset. But thankfully they weren't content to just make the entire trilogy a safe reset, they decided to introduce new ideas and new storytelling devices that the star wars franchise sorely needed with TLJ, one of the best SW films of the saga. It's ambitious, well made and controversial in all the right ways. Its a challenge of a film and was designed to be. Star wars needed a challenging film.

Like I mentioned, it did have some interesting ideas. It was dying for some kind of structure, though, and they honestly should have just left out a number of subplots entirely. If I had to guess, the cutting room floor was positively littered with scenes that would have explained/fixed everything.