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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I mentioned this point in my original post in this thread. This movie wraps up a bit too neatly. Unlike Empire there's no plot lines leading into the next movie. We aren't left wondering.
Maybe creating new lore was the wrong way to put it. I'm really glad non of these fan culture tropes were indulged in this movie. Who cares who Rey's parents are, who Snoke is. JJ didn't care beyond his lizard brain impulsive need to substitute "mystery" for good storytelling.
Snoke was a stand in bad guy that was needed for Kylo to reach his arc. That's all he was. All this bleating about him being the cloned remains of Darth Idontgiveacrap was not important to this story. Just as the Emperor's backstory in the trilogy wasn't necessary.
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Disagree on this point. The emperor's back story wasn't important because at that point, there was no back story, those were the first movies. He also took up a role in all 3 movies vs the 1.5 that Snoke was around.
By this point Star Wars has been around for decades with loads of content and additional films at our disposal. Unless this is your first Star Wars movie I'm not sure how you wouldn't be wondering about his identity, given the existing lore.
As far as Rey's parents -- there's literally nothing else interesting about the character other than that bit of mystery. No dilemma, no adversity, nothing. So they gave up on something that might have given insight into the character and her motivations, and even her god like abilities.
I get that you dislike JJ Abrams setup of the trilogy -- but since this is a trilogy, I'm not sure how Rian Johnson could go and ignore virtually everything that was built up in that film and flip the script so wildly in the follow up. Its disjointed and doesn't make sense.
Like I said, if they had the guts to reset the Star Wars universe completely, episode 7 was the time to do it. Now they have this sort of half in, half out trilogy going on.