Posted May 28, 2018
Breja: Yeah, maybe if done well. If it also had a good story. If it added something new and substantial of it's own. If it was well written. Just going "I'm gonna deconstruct the shit out of those movies" and making it into a huge, badly written "not" joke isn't that. Last Jedi is no Anatomy Lesson.
Yes, even as a deconstruction it's a bad one. That's something that annoys me in all these debates, people just assume we're against the concept of a deconstruction (or a movie about failure) when really it's all about execution. Breja: But you know what? Maybe not everything needs to be deconstructed. Maybe there are other ways to do something new than to act like a teen edgelord. Just because you don't want to go the easy way of doing exactly what the fans want doesn't mean you have to spend two and a half hours screaming at the fans "what you want is stupid". How about just... doing something truly new?
He should have done a "Star Wars Story" movie if he wanted to explore those themes, probably. He would have had a lot more leeway with fans and such if it was a side project, rather than the follow-up to Force Awakens' pretty traditional Star Wars style.