I mean, after what happened with THE LAST JEDI (to wit: Abrams swooped in, shot everything different Johnson did in the head, and slapped something together that could at least end the trilogy) it was pretty obvious.

And I’ll say it: that’s sort of a shame. The last three films should never have been made, but of the three of them THE LAST JEDI was the only one that wanted to push back against George Lucas’s bull[expletive deleted]. That it ultimately failed to do so is less Johnson’s fault, and much more Disney’s. I’d never thought I’d see the day when a company was so bound and determined to break its own golden eggs…

Oh, well. Twenty years from now they’ll mine that Extended Universe thing Star Wars had, and everybody will go, Wow. Why didn’t they do that from the start? And nobody will have a good answer.

#commissionearned