I don’t believe I have ever engaged with you on the merits of the film (being a horror fan means I rarely care what other people think on a film), so I think I’m in a safe place to respond here.
What drives me up the wall is your regular “it’s a bit weird…”s that try to extrapolate things beyond the film itself that prove why it’s bad, and how you basically ignore the most of the (usually polite, fair) responses.
It’s not a bit weird that there wasn’t an iron clad plot for the trilogy, because individual directors don’t drive these franchises - producers do. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the model to think that subsequent directors were beholden to whatever JJ intended with plot elements set up in TFA. You may not like the way they were resolved - that’s absolutely valid. But it is not “a bit weird” that JJ’s intentions were not carried through - it’s just the nature of the business.
It’s not a bit weird that we don’t know much about RJ’s trilogy. Disney does lots of work in the background, and likes big flashy announcements. Their other franchises show this clearly. Of course, it may not happen, or it may shift around. Four of the five recent SW movies have been beset by production issues. But, again, because he’s not sat there in interviews for his own film saying “ah yes, my trilogy is out in x, y and z”, it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
