Adhesive Boy
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When he said he made a “mess” he’s likely being facetious and what he really means is that Last Jedi leaves the SW story in a direction where the status quo is now in uncharted, unpredictable, and unfamiliar territory free from repeating any narrative beats from the past; which would be an interesting challenge for the next director to follow(in a good way). Johnson is trying to underscore just how much his movie fundamentally alters the direction of what many assumed the story was going in, in favor of a fresh new direction that we’ve never seen before.
Snoke is dead, but Kylo Ren is now the Supreme Leader and Resistance numbers have shrunken, and the Galaxy once again was inspired by the myth or legend of Luke Skywalker. These were interesting plot lines that Last Jedi left for its sequel and had they been properly followed up on would’ve made for a film that didn’t feel like a rehash like the final film did of ROTJ.
What's fresh about that? We still have the Empire with one of the dark lords in rule, apart from that Rian made them sniveling babies that no one would ever find threatening of course. We have the Rebellion with their new Luke Skywalker in bad shape just like before in ESB. It's just like before, except that Rian treated all characters like crap and no one is interesting at this point.
I'm also still waiting for someone to explain how the galaxy gets inspired by something they never saw. The resistance is so few so they can't spread any news in any credible fashion, so it will just drown in all the other rumors about the most legendary character in the galaxy.
It's also hilarious that Luke would be inspiring by facing the First Order and Kylo Ren, only to never be seen again. Yeah, the message of that not even a Jedi Master survives them sure sounds inspiring.
Rian should go do a project with Benioff and Weiss.