Agreed. Dominic could have had a partner who was always present and engaging as well since he was thrown in for who knows what reason other than JJ enjoying working with him. Or could have had Poe be involved with a man in place of Keri Russel's Zorii.
There was no reason to tie all 9 films together and deliver something even bigger than what came before. That shows a complete lack of imagination on Abrams part. Kylo was set up as the primary antagonist and not following up on that (and Rey being a nobody) organically is what gave us this incoherent mess.
Sorry, didn't mean to go off. The Ackbar argument is just one of the dumbest things in the worst arguments of TLJ and I still wake up in a cold sweat remembering how people legitimately tried to argue he was a real character.
LSG: Okay JJ, okay... please, at least tell us if all of that was worth the trouble for our heroes.
same reason they got Gwendoline Christie for Phasma. i really wonder if the pitch for both characters was like "look, you don't even have to be on set more than a day or two when we shoot your last scene. your body double can be there for 90% of it and we'll get you in the booth for a week or so to get voiceover. it's free money!"
No, what everyone really wanted was OT remakes masquerading as new entries in the franchise. Why do anything new or interesting when you can do this thing people already liked but worse with a quarter of the effort. That's real writting and story telling.
TFA was already a poor introduction to that trilogy. The foundation was too fragile
I think his arc is meant to follow Anakin's which makes perfect sense to me...the present echoes the past....
