The Biggest Problem With Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is J.J. Abrams
Let the hate flow through you.
With The Last Jedi's home release imminent, it has once again become the hot topic for Star Wars fans as deleted scenes get revealed, interviews are given, and battle lines are drawn once more.
In fairness, people haven't really stopped talking about the movie since it hit cinemas back in December, and to say it's proved divisive is a bit of an understatement. It's been declared both the best and worst Star Wars movie ever made, and petitions have been created to have it struck from canon or force Rian Johnson into apologising.
There are a plenty of criticisms for the movie, but a lot of them stem from the way Episode VIII does - or doesn't - follow on from The Force Awakens. Johnson forges his own path in a lot of ways, and after two years of speculation and build-up, not everyone was happy with what he came up with.
Rather than directing ire at Johnson, though, perhaps it would be better aimed at Episode VII helmer J.J. Abrams. It was his threads that Johnson decided to either drop or take in different directions to those expected, but a large portion of the blame lies with Abrams as a storyteller because, we've seen in his other work, he's great at ideas and concepts, but not so much with the answers.