Star Wars' sequel trilogy wrapped up with the release of last year's The Rise of Skywalker, and it's safe to say the whole thing didn't entirely flow: it went in one direction, then took a hard-left swerve, and planned to continue in that direction before a change in directors and staff meant it took an even harder-right turn back toward what it was at first.

There wasn't a singular vision across the board, which is exemplified by one of the editors of The Force Awakens stating that they believe The Last Jedi tried to "consciously undo" the trilogy.

Appearing on the Mission: Impossible podcast Light the Fuse (which has some great guests), editors Maryann Brandon – who worked on Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker – and Mary Jo Markey – who worked on Force Awakens – were asked for their thoughts on Rian Johnson's second instalment.

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"It was a different take on the Star Wars saga," a diplomatic Brandon said (at about 4 minutes into the most recent instalment). "To Rian's credit, he stuck to what he wanted to do, and he wanted to deconstruct the film and go a different direction, and I know it's controversial, but isn't that good? He brought new elements."

She did add, however, that felt "very much like, in hindsight, that the trilogy, the last part of the trilogy, needed one vision".

"I couldn't agree more," Markey said. "It's very strange to have the second film so consciously undo the storytelling of the first film. I'm sorry, that's what it felt like.

"I don't even feel like that's true about the third film. It took where the second film ended and tried to tell a story, I didn't feel like it was consciously trying to... it didn't feel that way."

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"It was polarising and it was hard for JJ and the writer to know what to do with it," Brandon added. "It's like someone else writing the middle of your novel."

It's important to re-iterate that the whole trilogy was never planned to be JJ Abrams' novel – Colin Trevorrow was originally on board and his leaked Duel of the Fates script (now in animated form!) followed through on the themes and arcs of TLJ more than TRoS did.

It does look like there was one constant across the trilogy, which was that Rey was never planned to be a Skywalker by blood (although the taking of the name was something that Trevorrow didn't have).

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is available to pre-order on DVD , Blu-ray and 4K now.

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