Fortunately the books make it worse and dumber: Mon Mothma gets her political career ended because she insisted on not only dismantling the Empire's war machine but also all the armed forces of the rebellion so they are literally weaponless when the new bad guys show up
It baffles me to this day that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and Abrams and Terrio managed to choose the laziest, least creative way forward. I get the behind the scenes 'Abrams makes blockbusters and we want a blockbuster' logic but I'd have imagined that Disney would at least have given the instruction not to shoot the entire franchise in the foot plot-wise since they're planning to wring every penny from it for the foreseeable future
Fortunately the books make it worse and dumber: Mon Mothma gets her political career ended because she insisted on not only dismantling the Empire's war machine but also all the armed forces of the rebellion so they are literally weaponless when the new bad guys show up
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It baffles me to this day that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and Abrams and Terrio managed to choose the laziest, least creative way forward. I get the behind the scenes 'Abrams makes blockbusters and we want a blockbuster' logic but I'd have imagined that Disney would at least have given the instruction not to shoot the entire franchise in the foot plot-wise since they're planning to wring every penny from it for the foreseeable future
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