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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
what the hell would have been the problem with just letting JJ do the whole trilogy, if nothing else but for the sake of consistency? his movie smashed the box office and got everyone excited for the next chapter, so let's completely switch gears for episodes 8 and 9?
even if you found TFA formulaic, at least having the same guy see his storyline through would have guaranteed some semblance of a coherent narrative. I don't understand at all what they had to gain by rotating through a bunch of other guys with completely different directing/screenwriting backgrounds and styles.
Hey Avengers Infinity War was the film event of 2018, great job Russo brothers! ok, you're up Paul Thomas Anderson. here's the keys to Endgame, let's take this baby home!
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My guess is that JJ didn't lay out the whole trilogy, nor did KK. TFA was built as a stand alone, I very much doubt that they had an idea of the Final Order and the return of Palpatine, but Star Wars fans were so negative towards TLJ that they knew that they were left with a weak villian duo in Ren and Hux, and they shoe horned Palpatine in, with the whole change the Sith mentality to the point that I groaned at his whole kill me and I'll basically jump into your body idea.
Oh and mounting super weapons on every star destroyer that were too close to the Stellar Converter on the ships of ID4.
There was a clever screw you to Rian in that movie when Ray tries to throw the light sabre in the fire and Luke's ghost catches it and lectures her on handling the weapon with more respect.
The one thing with George, that I liked was that he mapped out the original trilogy through the whole story.
Even the PT was mapped out.
Where George was weak is simple. He has trouble writing character dialogue. He's a brilliant world builder but the day to day detail stuff and fleshing out he struggles with.
In the case of the ST, I don't even believe they had a good world builder. The first movie, fine was a reboot of ANH, but after that it was a meandering story line that just didn't interconnect.