Such a mess...

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2020)

I was really looking forward to the new sequel. Now it's done I can only marvel at the stupidity of those in charge.
Apparently, George Lucas sold them his own outlines/treatments for the sequel trilogy - Disney binned them. They thought the talent they had/could hire would do so much better... However, it is now perfectly clear now that Disney didn't even have solid narrative arc defined for 7, 8 and 9. Not one they committed to at least.
Perhaps Abrams had written one, but Rian Johnson was not required to follow it. Perhaps the powers-that-be thought placing any creative shackles on their super talented hire would stifle their genius. Whatever had been the original plan, TLJ took a wrecking ball to it.
Perhaps the new trilogy might have worked if they had contracted one person to lead the story through the three films - but no. IX was only helmed by JJ Abrams because the Colin Trevorrow left due to 'creative differences'. So 'The plan' was to hand each film a different director/writer - except the panic button was hit and they got Abrams back to try to dig the Trilogy out of the narrative hole it was in.
Such a mess...