#compare the spoilers for TLJ to TFA and TROS

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Just out of curiosity, Who do you think is mainly responsible for the failure of the Sequel trilogy aka episode 9?

It seems like it's probably Bob Iger, because he would have been the one ultimately making the call not to push the release date. If it's true that Rian would have done it if they'd given him enough time and Kennedy wanted that- then you can lay an enormous amount of the blame directly at Iger's feet.

To what extent it was Kennedy's decision to bring in Colin and then Jjerrio, I don't know, but allegedly she was the one who wanted Rian to come back. So immediate responsibility might not have been hers, but she'd still be to blame for creating the situation in the first place.

Shifting away from whomsoever allowed the massive overflowing dumpster full of oily rags to become situated next to the fireworks factory back to the person who okayed soaking rags in oil in the first place, it's the fault of the LF executives for not having a thematic outline and not knowing what they were trying to say before they started. A plot outline wasn't necessary, but understanding how this was going to be part of and reaffirm the existing saga was. Rian pulled their asses out of the fire and created the illusion of competence at LF by making the ST seem like it genuinely wanted to tell a story and TFA wasn't just a soft reboot slash Disneyland Area Tour of ANH in a trenchcoat made of modern blockbuster cliches. He followed up on all the shit TFA threw at the wall like a writer and asked all the questions the LF executives never asked.

No one thought about idealism, redemption, family, compassion, etc. No one thought about the impact of making the only genuine throughline which connects the ST to the OT and PT, the only character the audience will have a preordained investment in, into an antagonist. No one thought about justifying their choice of protagonist. No one thought about the original characters as characters who needed to have arcs and emotions and comprehensible motivations. No one asked 'what did the original ending leave unsaid or unresolved?' 'How can we reiterate the same message but add something that was missing?' 'How are our new characters commenting on this existing world and what is their place in it?' That they didn't know these answers before anyone ever started writing is nothing short of irresponsible and incompetent.

It is absolutely staggering to me that a bunch of professionals didn't see this as a conversation they needed to have. It's the FIRST conversation they should have had.

But as far as tros just being a shitshow of a film without taking into account the garbage script or the fact that it destroyed SW, that's on JJ Abrams. He clearly runs his sets like a summer camp, is incompetent and unprofessional, can't make decisions, and has zero creative vision. Another director would never have been able to make a Terrio Episode IX into a good film, but they could shoot one (1) consistent movie with enough coverage to avoid cannibalising itself to create KEY SHOTS and no need to loop pivotal dialogue a month before the premiere. They could probably avoid the entire plot being leaked months ahead of release and deliver an actually finished film.

Was some of the haphazard production nightmare due to the rush and executive meddling from Disney and not really Abrams fault? Probably! But he's got a fucking track record and I'm super comfortable at this point saying his productions are unprofessional and he's very bad at many important aspects of his job.