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⌈ Secret Post #4022 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

First of all, it seems like what you liked about TFA was less anything that it presented, and more the fact that because it didn't present anything, you were able to imagine interesting things. Which is fine, but it's not really a strength of TFA as a film, any more than it's a weakness of TLJ.

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I now feel that Star Wars doesn't really care.

Since when has Star Wars cared about stuff like that, in main-line movies? The deal with Star Wars has always kind of been that they present all this unspecified, throwaway stuff in the movies, and then every single bit and morsel of it gets elaborated on in the Expanded Universe continuity.

The original series, for instance, was certainly never interested in explaining what was going on with Boba Fett. He was just this guy. And the fact that the prequels were really invested in that stuff was one of the problems wit the prequels.

Hux was never what you wanted him to be. And Star Wars was always a series of space adventure films, not an exercise in logically consistent worldbuilding.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, you're misreading me. I don't expect all that stuff to be in the movies but I did expect some thought to be put into it. And I expected it because Star Wars promised it. What I mean by that is that Rogue One included Saw from Clone Wars and also mentions Hera from Rebels and has cameos from the OT. Saw was then put into Rebels. There was a concerted effort to tie in things together. Who Saw was wasn't in the movie because that's not the place for it. But I felt that there was care being put into the backstories of people. The actors could use this backstory to inform their performances and the set/costumes would reflect this, etc. It wasn't expressly in the script but it was still there in the background and could be expanded on in the EU.

For the sequel trilogy, I expected about the same but without Filoni or someone like that, I just don't think they care. Rian said he had no constraints when it came to writing; there was nothing about the characters or the arcs that was defined. The Phasma book and comic built her up so that it looked like the EU was trying to salvage her character but TLJ just threw her away again. The new Crait comic and the Leia novel contradict each other in a major way. I'm seeing a lot less care when it comes to the sequel trilogy. JJ just handed over his script idea for episode 9 and had it approved. It wasn't set out when the trilogy began. There's nowhere this trilogy was always heading, which wasn't the impression I got right after TFA. And that really deflates me.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not surprised that JJ didn't plan ahead for the next two movies. When has he ever?