And I also really feel like JJ Abrams and Chris Tetris weren’t even satisfied with it. But in interviews, you can’t say that shit. You have to defend your choices on the film, because if you start criticizing your own movie while it’s in theaters it’s gonna bomb, and you’ll be blacklisted. Look what happened to Josh Trank.

I think they wanted to make a good conclusion, but they ran out of time and had to say, “It’s good enough.”
They also clearly found other elements of the movie more important than the fans do, but at the same time they tried to give the fans what they thought they wanted.

Off topic, but it still blows my mind how hard they tried to make Finn and Poe not gay. They need to give them both potential romantic interests, but people didn’t like Rose so we have to make a new female character for Finn. And look! Poe’s gotta old flame! She offers for him to runaway with her, but then at the end of the movie she turns down her advances. So I guess Finn and Poe can’t be gay, but they don’t want to pair them with anyone at the end either.

After reading what the editor’s thoughts on TLJ were, I bet a ton of people at Bad Robot, including JJ, felt that way about it. Man, Rian REALLY fucked it up for us. What an asshole. Now we have to fucking course correct.

“I didn’t lie to you. Your parents were no one, because they chose to be! Your parents sold you to protect you…”

Chris Terrio: God, we’re so fucking clever.

I also remember a moment where a woman was sitting with Chris Terrio in the BTS talking about the end of the movie, when we see Adam Driver’s performance. I’m pretty sure it is Michelle Rejwan. And she’s says something like, “It’s a tragedy because we don’t get to see him for very long, but you get to see the person he could’ve been” And I really get the feeling that she didn’t want Ben to die. I honestly think Lucasfilm people didn’t want it. But maybe I’m wrong.