Star Wars: Does Rian Johnson have to continue defending every single thing from The Last Jedi?

Rian Johnson is continually having to explain, defend, or even pull out canon Star Wars books to try and placate fans about The Last Jedi. Is it too much?

Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has spent the majority of the month since the film released having to “explain” things. His justification on the lack of the the Knights of Ren just dropped recently, as has a fascinating string of tweets that can only be called maximally shady.

It’s almost impressive, really: not only does he own a copy of The Jedi Path (and The Book of Sith), but he also has the evidence to explain how Luke Skywalker got a version of himself all the way to Crait, looking younger and using the Skywalker family lightsaber.

The thread’s key tweet is here:

And yes, perhaps it is nice that Johnson clearly knows his way around the Star Wars canon enough to have this in mind while he worked on The Last Jedi. At some point, however, it’s difficult to say whether or not this even matters.

This isn’t to say that I don’t respect his willingness to go out there and defend his work. It seems quite clear that what he did with The Last Jedi means a lot to him, and the sometimes-mixed reaction to the film had to have personally stung. However, it’s starting to become perhaps a bit too … obvious, shall we say?

At some point, it seems logical that he’ll have to just let his work on the movie speak for itself. As much as there are apparently canon explanations for a multitude of the choices made in the movie, it’s a bit more fun to explore that among the fandom — without Johnson handing us all the answers.

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What do you think of Johnson’s latest callout of Star Wars fans? Do you think he should continue on this path?