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Charged151 posted...

TLJ subverted a lot of what TFA setup. It also did huge damage to Luke's character and otherwise was nonsensical (that slow ship space chase...). It deserves the scorn it gets...with the actors playing Luke and Finn in particular not liking the movie either.

The writers didn't even have Rey's parentage nailed down by the time filming of the trilogy started. If you want to extend the analogy, the foundation wasn't set correctly.

TFA set up that damage to Luke's character. Luke is hiding like Yoda while a Palpatinesque Sith Lord is reconquering the galaxy. There was never going to be a satisfying answer to why, which is why TFA never attempted to answer it. TFA easily could've had been written so that Resistance already knew why he left.

Snoke was equally unsatisfying. In interviews they promised Snoke & Knights were totally something new, but they gave zero details showcasing how they were different. Doing the same thing while promising it's different with no idea of how it's different is not a formula for long-term success.

TFA wrote Rey's abandonment as important to her character arc without them ever internally knowing why she was abandoned. The author's of TFA not knowing the crucial plot details that took place before TFA is them setting cracked foundation dooming the house to fail.

TFA would've worked if it was the first entry in the series. You don't need to know how Anakin turned evil or where Palpatine came from or how the Jedi lost so much ground to enjoy the OT. Empire did not answer any of those questions. The expectation of Last Jedi to answer TFA's vague set up doomed it to be unsatisfying. TFA shouldn't rely on other movies to connect it to the series.