13th January 2020, 9:20 PM
(12th January 2020, 11:03 AM)A Black Falcon Wrote: My best thought is that Disney must have seen how Lucas made new things in the prequels and got heavily criticized for it, so they to go in the exact opposite direction with their first trilogy: how about we make what we think the fans the least original thing possible? And it worked at first, a lot of people (not me, but a lot of people) liked TFA despite its unoriginality.
Even so though, you'd think that they would have realized that planning their trilogy before it's made is important. Sure, you can make stuff up as you go along, but you end up with cohesive story if you plan it... which they very obviously didn't bother doing, unfortunately.
The Sequel Trilogy was initially concepted by Lucas, and some of his ideas made it into the final product -- young male and female main characters, the male one becomes a Sith and the female one has to save the day, various bits the movies use, etc... but of course, the books also had a variant on that same idea when right near the end of the old EU Jacen became a sith and Jaina had to, in the end, save the day by killing him, so it's clearly an idea Lucas liked. He would have put things in a new framework instead of a remake of the original trilogy, though, and I'm sure that I at least would have liked them a lot more... but public opinion would surely also be divisive at best, so I can kind of understand why he decided to take the $4 billion and retire; let fan dislike of new Star Wars movies be someone elses' problem this time... but with how badly Disney, JJ, and Rian messed things up it's unfortunate he did. Oh well.
So I saw a 2 hour very funny shitting on the script eailer today.. Alllllllll valid points:
Also a slightl less funny (more pissed off) 1h 30 min shitting on the script: