Exactly. Completely agree.

Rian wants to have it both ways. He wants to make a big statement by showing us that the things we think are important, like Snoke, and Rey’s parents and the Jedi Texts and Luke and Luke’s lightsaber are actually not important at all.

Luke immediately tosses his father’s lightsaber off a cliff. Wow. Okay. Rian wants to shake things up and take big chances – I’m on board for that.

…except that Rian makes it clear that the lightsaber is important after all. It doesn’t tumble over the cliff, and Rey immediately goes to retrieve it. Indeed, she and Ben Solo later fight over it as if the lightsaber is more important than the Force itself.

And then there are the Jedi Books – apparently burned by Yoda as a sign that the old Jedi ways need to be swept aside. It’s a challenging metaphor for the Star Wars franchise itself. Except it’s a fake. Rey had the books all along.

Finally, Johnson wants to give the impression that he’s moved the franchise on and set it off in a radical new direction, yet the film ends with Luke declaring that the “War has just begun”. Back to the Rebel Alliance and the Empire and stormtroopers and Jedi and Imperial Walkers.

Look at the time, is it 1977 already?