There has been a pretty pervasive criticism against the current trilogy of Star Wars movies. That Lucasfilm didn’t necessarily have a plan in mind, and as a result, Star Wars: The Last Jedi pretty much likely derailed everything J.J. Abrams set up in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — or so the fan theories go. After all, why set up questions about Snoke an Rey’s parents if you’re just going to kill Snoke and sweep her parentage under the rug, right?

While I certainly have opposing views to that whole deal, I can see the argument for there being no plan from Lucasfilm for the direction of the trilogy as a whole (though I can also see that changing, depending on how The Rise of Skywalker wraps things up), and as a result, an argument can be made that Abrams’ next film has to go off in a different direction thanks to how TLJ left things.

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So, how did director Rian Johnson’s choices in The Last Jedi affect The Rise of Skywalker?

“There were some choices that made things a bit more fun for us, because, for example, Rian didn’t have the whole group collaborative adventure of it together, and that was really fun to get to tell the story of the group, the droids, out on one breakneck, crazy, desperate adventure,” Abrams told Esquire. “You know? The choices that he made for me were as a fan, as a reader of the script, a fan of his, a fan of Star Wars… it was just fun to read someone’s take that was so about surprising the viewer and it was just really entertaining, because it was, it got to surprise me nearly every time. So, I loved it for that. As a filmmaker, working on episode IX, amazingly, nothing that he did in Last Jedi got in the way of things that we had talked about wanting to do down the line, ideas that I had about where things might go, so… it wasn’t like his story somehow derailed the things I wanted to pursue. In fact, strangely, they might have even helped strengthen them because we got to make some choices that sort of take advantage of the fact that Rian hadn’t done the things that we were thinking about doing.”

Those of you who believe there was no grand plan can likely find this quote enforces your opinion, as it seems to confirm there was no overall plan on the beats for each film, for better or worse. Personally, I’ve never had a problem for that, as it helped make each individual movie satisfying and unique in its own way, but I can understand that rubbing some people the wrong way.

If that just confirms Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t your thing, then maybe check out the Kabuki version in Japan, which apparently is totally happening, as The Guardian reports. Maybe you can get your Star Wars fix, but with none of the baggage.

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SOURCE: Esquire, The Guardian