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SAlYAN posted...

No, it's an appeal to narrative cohesion.

If the last 3 chapters of The Odyssey suddenly pivoted to being Jason and the Argonauts, that would be ludicrous. Because the Odyssey is a long saga about Odysseus' crew, amd not "anybody can go on swashbuckling Greek adventures at sea."

The issue with this comparison is that episodes 4-6 were the finale of the story. Episodes 7-9 were starting a new story, mostly because Jedi was a pretty conclusive finale and there wasn't room to expand on that story.

Rey's lineage doesn't really change anything, mostly because the writers didn't do anything with it. The new trio being totally unconnected to previous characters had as much impact as their hair colours. Kylo Ren being who he was could have been interesting, but again they didn't really do much with his lineage. Palpatine somehow coming back was awful though. He was basically the one character in the universe who should not have been the villain. Even Snoke would have been better. Given what TLJ gave us, I really wanted to stick with Ren.