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Originally Posted by GGG
HE set up questions that weren't answerable while telling any reasonably coherent movie. This mystery solving aspect of Star Wars has no basis in Lore. There were two exciting reveals in Star Wars. Leia and Luke's father. And neither were questions that you debated between movies. So yes Abrams is at fault for asking tantalizing questions without answering them or having an answer for him. He has no track record of satisfyingly closing any mystery he has built.
Rian nailed the the force as a religion where the Jedi aren't some perfect order. The Lucus force is childish in that there is a light and a dark and that's it. The Jedi being responsible for great amounts of war and suffering has always been a conversation of nerds. We're the Jedi actually a force of good in the universe is open to interpretation. Exploring this aspect of the force is far more interesting then the arbitrary good bs evil.
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The exploration of the utility of the Jedi was explored heavily in the prequel trilogy. Lucas has most certainly explored that issue. While the force itself was good/bad, the actual acts of the humans who used it existed in all sorts of grey. The good force users were never infallible. The Jedi were always imperfect, but on a life long quest to improve themselves. Prior to its destruction, the Jedi order itself had become dogmatic and was incapable of actually preventing war and suffering.
Johnson just didn't follow any of the pre-established rules of the force. He was constantly making up new force abilities to solve problems. That's just lazy writing. If anything I'd say he did the opposite of what you're saying. There was no grey, except for Luke, and even then he wasn't really grey, he'd just messed up. All the other force users were 2 dimensional archetypes of good and evil. Kyle and Rae's "struggle" was half-assed and really nothing more than lip service that led to big action scenes. It felt like Johnson didn't finish his own script, with the moving just jumping forward without exploring or resolving the issues.