![]() ![]() Some of the first three movies’ biggest plot points were famously not part of George Lucas’ original set of ideas. Truthfully, though, a lack of forethought has always been a hallmark of Star Wars trilogies. This forest training sequence seems familiar, like so much of Rise of Skywalker. With Skywalker, Abrams returns to the trilogy, and visibly scrambles to assemble payoffs, fan service, and callbacks to the Lucas-era films, all while offhandedly retconning Last Jedi. Abrams kicked off the run with The Force Awakens, then ceded the middle installment, The Last Jedi, to writer-director Rian Johnson. ![]() A lot of criticisms over The Rise of Skywalker focus on the new trilogy’s planning, or lack thereof. There’s been a lot of debate, though, over exactly how detailed those designs have been. Few film sagas get this many cracks at designing a satisfying ending. Though Star Wars has had multiple TV and movie spin-offs, with more on the way, the core of the series is those three trilogies, each separated by a decade or more, all of which were intended to tie up loose ends in their respective third installments: 1983’s Return of the Jedi, 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, and now The Rise of Skywalker. But even at its most cynical, Star Wars isn’t exactly Friday the 13th in the 1980s, advertising a final installment, then releasing another sequel a year later. Plenty of franchises have promised an ending, then continued anyway. This puts Star Wars in the unusual position of having drawn to a close three separate times, with three separate trilogies. No further numbered “episode” movies that add onto George Lucas’ original nine-film arc are expected to materialize in the foreseeable future. ![]() ![]() But Skywalker does wrap up the trilogy of new movies that were first announced when Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012. The “finality” of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a joke this film wasn’t even the last Star Wars adventure many fans saw in 2019, since The Mandalorian’s season finale trailed the movie’s release by a week. ![]()
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