I wonder what are y’all smoking seeing bold and expectation-defying choices in the story. I can only think of the Force projection thing (which I quite liked). Other than that it seems incredibly safe to me.
Um, killing Snoke halfway through the trilogy is safe?
Ok.
Lifting a scene from the end of ROTJ and putting it in the middle of TESB sure is strange, just not my idea of brave. And not my idea of clever either, since Snoke was obviously set up to actually matter in the overall story.