Quote Originally Posted by Anthony W View Post
First of all, let me just say that this is going to make a lot of money because it's Star Wars

Just watched the trailer again. Remember the phrase "jump the shark"? Well, this "jumped the tie fighter". I will tell you why, besides Rey jumping over a Tie fighter. This new trilogy feels like an adaptation of a series of YA novels. A plucky but boring heroine complete with unearned status and broody will they won't they relationship drama with Star Wars sprinkled on.

The Emperor's return just speaks to the fact that this trilogy couldn't create interesting villains. Speaking of villains why oh why did JJ even bother to go back to Rebels vs Empire? If JJ swears he had a plan but Rian didn't follow it. Whose fault is that? Disney isn't paying JJ all this money to be an absentee dad. Where was Kennedy in all this?
Actually he doesn't say that at all. In fact he said just the opposite, that he had no plans of retconning or undoing anything that happened in the Last Jedi and stressed that the film wasn't a vast departure from the story planning sessions they had to start the sequels off. It makes sense really that he isn't panning the Last Jedi, he was a producer on the film so it's not as if he was in the dark about what was going on.