Gee he participated in its writing...Thing is he is not in charge of the story. Story group is. And the Primary from my understanding is Lawrence Kasdan. Which is why he comes first in the writing credits.

We can only hope, though TFA has a very JJ style of reboot feeling to it. And he was constantly talking about his (empty) mystery box style for TFA and TFA delivered exactly that: Tons of unanswered question and a movie which seems to not make any sense. It certainly feels like tons of JJ influence.

So in the worst case Lawrence Kasdan is a JJ fan because that is financial working concept of selling mystery with actually need to come up with a solution for all those unanswered question. Those I am not that pessimistic as Kasdan has done tons of star wars writing in the past.

Gee he participated in its writing...Thing is he is not in charge of the story. Story group is. And the Primary from my understanding is Lawrence Kasdan. Which is why he comes first in the writing credits.

We can only hope, though TFA has a very JJ style of reboot feeling to it. And he was constantly talking about his (empty) mystery box style for TFA and TFA delivered exactly that: Tons of unanswered question and a movie which seems to not make any sense. It certainly feels like tons of JJ influence.

So in the worst case Lawrence Kasdan is a JJ fan because that is financial working concept of selling mystery with actually need to come up with a solution for all those unanswered question. Those I am not that pessimistic as Kasdan has done tons of star wars writing in the past.

Well Kasdan got top billing for writer. Which to me says his would be the driver. With JJ having a fair amount of input into the story. I take Starwar.com saying not ilum as meaning not ilum. It does make sense that region has several sources of Khyber Crystals. And it would not surprise me if Snoke is on Ilum.

Reusing instead of inventing is sloppy and lazy.

Especially in Star Wars, where it has almost been epedemic in use for the last 30 years.

Creativity is good, creativity based on established facts within your fiction is gold! Using what is there to build on and work with.

Or do you really think that the writing in Lost was great and the Breaking Bad writing was bad?