10 Reasons To Stop Hating Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Now having multiple different directors add their own flavour to the mix isn't anything new in the galaxy far, far away, with the OG trilogy seeing three different figures steering the ship.

But Irvin Kershnerr and Richard Marquand's work was still being overseen by George Lucas back then, with the A New Hope director making sure the overall story was heading towards the conclusion he wanted.

Not having a similar sort of plan heading into the Sequels set this new trilogy, and Rian Johnson and J. J. Abrams, up for failure pretty early on, with Abrams himself admitting (to Collider) he learned the hard way that having a plan is "the most critical thing" when it comes to telling this sort of story.

So, the next time you ball up your fist and curse the many frustrating retcons and ways the Sequels feel like a painfully disjointed mess, just remember that the folks tasked with helming them were put in a pretty unenviable position of having to deal with narrative decisions they didn't choose before proceeding to make it up as they went along.