I don't care what people like. I care what I like, and how well storycrafters can sell me on the themes selected & presented, and the overall package. Most people know dick about film and literature anyhow. We really going to go w/ audience scores, and argument ad populum here?!
I admire what Disney did. They figured that if they do something that gets people talking (or even irate) then it's worth the risk long-term. After all, they rather have you thinking about Star Wars than ignoring it. Some of you have thousands of posts here going back to IMDb days. How much you wanna bet that this activity was largely fostered by Star Wars, and maybe some comic book extended universes if you're into that as well? They don't care whether you were ecstatic or demanding the head of Kathleen Kennedy. It's all publicity.
You seem to be of the opinion that in a corporate boardroom they just decided to wing it, and gave these directors full creative control. No matter what they may have said in interviews or press releases, the origin of Rey was determined probably even before they cast her. It was simply kept confidential. These are the movies that featured one of the all-time great mind-fvcks of all time when we learned Vader is Luke's father in Empire. If you weren't around then, it might be hard to capture the significance of that, and of course, if you later watch the films in chronological order the twist disappears altogether.
There was always going to be a similar twist in the new episodes. That twist had nothing to do with Han dying, or Luke being a hermit, or the Snoke character... those were red herrings to distract from the payoff. The twist was fully placed on the origin of Rey, and the Emperor, Darth Sidious reveal. He is the primary antagonist of the series. The only thing that could have changed that would be if Ian McDiarmid had died prior to IX, but he was likely secretly contracted for that film during pre-production stages of VII.
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2 years ago
Very well-reasoned post, but I suppose I just never liked the Sequel Trilogy, despite the problems and plotholes and sheer conveniences scattered all over them. I consider the Star Wars story to be over after the first six movies, and was very skeptical when Disney bought Lucasfilm. They then proceeded to make a non-planned, rehash trilogy with no originality and yet people initially lapped it up. They then soured on it with the second movie, and course correction for the movie resulted in an insulting car crash. HOWEVER, the movies still made pots of money, somehow, AND were highly rated, which baffles me, even if the returns on each diminished, and Solo (horrible movie) bombed, the first Star Wars to do so.
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