Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels to me like they wanted to make three new mainline star wars movies, because that's how the others happened, but they just didn't plan them as a trilogy rather than 3 separate projects, perhaps due to wanting to tweak the stories in response to fan feedback as it went. So it feels more like a serial than a grand connected trilogy.I guess it's hard to nail a trilogy. TFA and TLJ set the review bar really high and I was optimistic, but these impressions have defeated me.