cboath
Master Member
It's kind of a relief that Johnson is saying that the story was blank slate when he took over from JJ, there was nothing handed over except what actually appears in TFA. While it's kind of frustrating that it implies that nothing in TFA was actually going anywhere, that it was just a series of Abrams Mystery Boxes with literally nothing in them, I'm not that upset about it if Johnson is filling them up instead of Abrams.
It's sort of a relief - but at the same time, with something as big as SW - you'd think there'd be an over-arching plan. Maybe SOME rules like, you can't kill so and so...you know. I know GL didn't have the whole thing completely laid out, but he knew where he wanted to be at the end of ESB and then ROTJ - though the end of ROTJ changed to be the series ender.
I mean, what if Rian's script called for Kylo to turn on and kill snoke in a return from the dark side...next director is going to be like 'WTF?' i'm screwed now...
I'm also curious as to Rey's parentage still. It's not shocking and short of her dad being jar-jar i don't think anything would shock me. But if Kylo stays bad and Rey isn't a Skywalker....there's not a continuation of 'the saga' as the saga is the skywalker story. The only way of continuing the skywalker story from there is for Luke to start dating a much younger woman