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I hate to beat a dead tauntaun, but I just saw this and thought it was interesting...

J.J. Abrams says Disney had no plan when they made the new Star Wars trilogy.

If you're unfamiliar with the carousel of directors behind the final trilogy, the original plan was to have Abrams direct The Force Awakens, Rian Johnson direct The Last Jedi, and Trevorrow direct The Rise of Skywalker, with each director putting their own spins on the series.

With all the changes behind the scenes, the final product didn't exactly resemble a seamless narrative.

From Abrams himself:

“You just never really know, but having a plan I have learned - in some cases the hard way - is the most critical thing, because otherwise you don’t know what you’re setting up. You don’t know what to emphasize. Because if you don’t know the inevitable of the story, you’re just as good as your last sequence or effect or joke or whatever, but you want to be leading to something inevitable.”