I think it’s strange they treated the anthologies as “safe films” while “experimenting” with the saga films.

Lucasfilm limited Gareth Edwards because they didn’t like his direction. And yet most fans applaud RO’s darker side and wanted more.

Lucasfilm fires Lord and Miller for being too wacky. While I see their reasoning, after watching Spiderverse and LEGO Movie 2 I firmly believe these two are geniuses. Everything they touch sounds horrible and ends up perfect. What we got instead was a mediocre very safe movie- which is a shame.

But with TLJ, Kathleen uncharacteristically have Rian full control. I’m not going to debate whether that was a good or bad idea… but of the Disney movies I think TLJ is the most a director’s vision.

And naturally, a single vision is divisive… whereas studio input is not. I think they should have experimented more with the spinoffs instead of saga. To me it’s the equivalent of playing Guardians of the Galaxy safe but Avengers all “out there”.