Många fans kände att J.J. Abrams reparerade mycket av det som Rian Johnson stökade till i The Last Jedi och på många sätt kändes just Rise of Skywalker som ett svar på fansens många klagomål. Vissa fans ser det till och med som att den nya filmen till och med ger långfingret till det föregående kapitlet. J.J. Abrams kunde dock inte riktigt hålla med om detta, som i en Q&A-intervju menade att Johnsons episod öppnade upp fler möjligheter för den nya filmen, snarare än motsatsen:
"It's been nothing but collaborative in a way, the perspective at least personally I got stepping away and seeing what Rian did, strangely gave us opportunities that would never have been there. Because, of course, he made choices that no one else would have made. Just as we all do, as any of us in this room do. In a way, it felt like a gift. And though there were challenges in every direction — some logistical, some narrative, everything — it was actually weirdly more helpful than not having that other energy, it felt like a sort of alchemy, because of the things that he did."
Han tillägger:
"Another thing I'll say is I think that people who say, 'Oh, this film is flipping off The Last Jedi when Luke says the thing he does about the lightsaber.' If the scene in The Last Jedi where Luke tosses the saber over his shoulder were immediately followed by Luke saying 'A Jedi's weapon deserves more respect,' I'd think it was insane. But one of the many brilliant things that Rian did in Last Jedi is give Luke an arc. He learned something. He got somewhere. At the end of that film, he committed - recommitted - to the thing that at the very beginning of the film he was rejecting."
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