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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Breaking Bad didn't *revolve around* the Mystery Box though, it wasn't Lost where the mystery was the basic nature of the setting and why the characters are here at all and what the fuck is going on
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You can set yourself challenges like that sure, but there are limits and you have to know where your limits are JJ regularly sets up mysteries that are totally open ended, not "How did we get from X to Y" but "Where did X even come from in the first place"
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True. I don't usually pay attention to marketing so I'm often not sure what's the actual mystery is supposed to be (like Reys parents or the Cumberbatch/Khan thing), so it feels like he's answering questions I never asked
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It's why they all point so vaguely in so many directions. Why did Finn break conditioning? Ooh, mysterious! And so on. It's like an epic trek to an empty field with a real estate sign on it.
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