From where I’m standing, there’s only one film in this trilogy that consciously undoes anything in TFA or otherwise, and it’s not TLJ.
Right? And what’s even more bizarre to me is how everyone who has spoken along these similar lines on the TROS production, whether it’s negative OR positive, seems to have this weird tone where they honestly believe there was a roadmap or a plan that probably should have been adhered to, when everyone absolutely knows there wasn’t, and further, if there was, why would anyone have cause to believe ANYONE ELSE KNEW ABOUT IT?
Because the people who made the first movie, made it literally never believing they’d come back to have a second bite at this apple. NOBODY making The Force Awakens had any illusions that they’d be back for part two or three. So for this creative team to come back and act like they had to “set things right” in any way just doesn’t make any sense at all. All the decisions you made on the first movie, you made under the full knowledge you’d have zero control over what came next. So why are you acting like you’re now burdened with getting things “back on track to how it should be” when there was never a “how it should be” back in 2015 when you finished your leg of the race?
And of course, the ultimate comedy is that their “well, we had to fix what was originally supposed to be” solutions basically UNDID EVERYTHING they did in the first movie. TLJ never contradicted TFA. But TROS sure as hell did. All over the place.