That’s kind of the point, though. He didn’t rank high enough that ANYONE would have given him any info. He had just been demoted for doing something really dumb. That means he’s now an average grunt who doesn’t get let in on plans.

To be honest, I look at this trilogy as being a very different beast from either the original or the prequel trilogy. Mostly in that rather than the three movies serving as a beginning, middle, and end, TFA serves as a reintroduction, TLJ works largely as a conclusion, and Episode IX will (I predict) serve largely as…

Actually, TLJ managed to bring some solid validity to that line (finally after 4 decades). Which I love and can’t wait to see more of.

There is. Quite a bit in fact. I’ve dig into this a bit recently and there’s a TON of overlap. It makes a lot of sense, too, when you remember it was the Snyder DCEU fans who tried to start the petition to shut down Rotten Tomatoes b/c critics all hated the movies, now they want to do the same thing because critics…

So was Lawrence Kasdan then I guess?

I fundamentally disagree that these movies are attempting to wash away the original trilogy — it’s quite the opposite.