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Originally Posted by #-3
The inconsistencies were choices made in the 3rd movie, completely independent from TLJ (except for JJ spending far too much time listening to whinny fan boys). The TLJ & TFA were compatible stories with a good 3rd part, they just never got it. I also don't think TLJ was particularly original, it's just that it basically played out the narrative of ESB & RoTJ in one act to leave space for a different ending, which was smart, if they had given us another trilogy with the same story, same ending... it would have been very weak narratively.
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TLJ went out of its way at just about every turn to be "subversive". They literally undid almost everything the TFA set up. I have never seen a sequel do that before, and I definitely would not describe it as "compatible".
Phasma and Snoke died. Hux became a fool.
Luke was a depressed gag, and there was no Jedi order to receive training from. In fact, TLJ implied that no more light or dark side existed. The child grasping for the broom is really the kind of scene you'd expect at the end of a trilogy and not in the middle. Also, untrained force users having that kind of power, is kind of outside of what the previous movies had shown.
Finn's relationship with the other main characters ceased to exist, and he was no in a new relationship with Rose. The elimination of Phasma ended much of his beef with the Empire.
Rey's parents being revealed as a nobody ended another big plot.
The rebellion was completely destroyed. So was the First Order for that matter. Akbar died.
The list of things that the TLJ destroyed is very long. As others have stated, there really wasn't much left to work with. Other than the First Order having some secret base and forces in some far off place, where else do you have to go with the story?
TLJ didn't just end the setups from TFA, but most of the Star Wars universe.
The only thing really left was the relationship between Rey and Kylo, and that didn't really advance at all during the film. It was still stuck at Kylo wanting to be in some kind of awkward union with Rey but unable to stop being a spaz. His only true connection to the dark side was his love of throwing tantrums. They tried to parallel the whole Anakin being chained to the Emperor through his own bad deeds, but it didn't really work because everyone seemed to forgive Kylo for killing Han Solo.