I still cannot goddamn believe the approach of all but one of the directors for this sequel series to one of the biggest and simplest franchises of all time was "but what if we winged it"
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I keep saying, the Mystery Box is a huge con job he's pulling on both his bosses and the audiences and he actually gave a TED Talk admitting it in detail
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If you just keep asking intriguing questions, and let people assume you've asked them with an answer already in mind, but really you have no idea, it's very easy to give the impression of being a very hardworking genius while actually being a very lazy idiot
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Hell even the *ending shot* of TFA is this People had their socks knocked off by how epic and dramatic it was to end the movie on this huge cliffhanger of Luke just staring at Rey and the lightsaber for a long continuous shot and then cutting to black
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Rian Johnson realized, almost immediately, that there was NOTHING he could have Luke say at the beginning of the next movie that would live up to the hype of this moment It was impossible JJ completely fucked him over with that cut
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So he rolled with it and made the letdown intentionally as epic as the buildup had been People called it cheeky trolling but come on he didn't have a choice
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JJ being forced to open his own damn Mystery Box for once in his career was poetic justice and as we can see clearly demonstrated that trying to play the Mystery Box straight and give an actual big reveal that lives up to all this hype is basically impossible
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I mean the funny bit was it wasn't forced. He could have run with Johnson's answer. It was pride
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Yeah I mean it's like he got mad at the idea of "the box was always empty" but that's one of the canonical, traditional answers for a Mystery Box for a reason
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Lol now I'm just thinking about how hard Community owned JJ Abrams The Christmas episode with the stop-motion animation taking place in Abed's subconscious With the gift from his mom being, literally a Mystery Box
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And when it gets opened he casually dismisses the contents "It's... a DVD?" "It's a box set of LOST Season 1. It's just a metaphor for wasted potential and disappointment"
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The mystery box works if you're good at improvising stories. In Breaking Bad they write stuff they hadn't planned out (like the flash-forward in the last season), and intentionally wrote the characters into impossible situations just to see if they could write their way out.
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