No, you got the nail on the head. He loves a mystery, and wants to keep audiences guessing about what’s in his “black box” but there’s never actually been anything there. Fringe, Lost, Star Wars, Star Trek, he’s just never been able to actually tell a story with an actual conclusion. If he absolutely has to be involved in a creative process, it should be for about 5 minutes at the beginning before he’s kicked out in favour of writers that can actually do something interesting with the incomplete messes he spews.
This is how he treated the Star Wars sequel trilogy. All McGuffin, no plan. People have planned better on bar napkins in a restaurant. I really wish Trevorrow’s script would have been used instead of putting Abrams at the helm of Episode IX. Instead we got “Somehow Palpatine returned.”
No, you got the nail on the head. He loves a mystery, and wants to keep audiences guessing about what’s in his “black box” but there’s never actually been anything there. Fringe, Lost, Star Wars, Star Trek, he’s just never been able to actually tell a story with an actual conclusion. If he absolutely has to be involved in a creative process, it should be for about 5 minutes at the beginning before he’s kicked out in favour of writers that can actually do something interesting with the incomplete messes he spews.
This is how he treated the Star Wars sequel trilogy. All McGuffin, no plan. People have planned better on bar napkins in a restaurant. I really wish Trevorrow’s script would have been used instead of putting Abrams at the helm of Episode IX. Instead we got “Somehow Palpatine returned.”