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
How else can Abrams' vision of resetting fucking everything work without an asspull to undo absolutely every positive change in society after Return of the Jedi?
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
Around the time the first "Mystery Box" dropped, the one that killed the new Jedi Order before the movie even fucking started and blew up the New Republic and its not-Coruscant capitol with an asspull of a "Death Star, but bigger, the franchise was a toy juggernaut and raked in billions from that alone. By "Rise of Skywalker," Abrams cut that to a fraction of its previous take but he's such a failing-upwards failson that he's still getting work.
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
How else can Abrams' vision of resetting fucking everything work without an asspull to undo absolutely every positive change in society after Return of the Jedi?
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
Around the time the first "Mystery Box" dropped, the one that killed the new Jedi Order before the movie even fucking started and blew up the New Republic and its not-Coruscant capitol with an asspull of a "Death Star, but bigger, the franchise was a toy juggernaut and raked in billions from that alone. By "Rise of Skywalker," Abrams cut that to a fraction of its previous take but he's such a failing-upwards failson that he's still getting work.