When The Force Awakens was released in 2015, fans loved it: “Thanks, JJ Abrams, for going back to the Original Trilogy!”. Yet fans were a bit irked too: “It’s A New Hope reskinned for the 21st Century!!” What people didn’t realize is that both the love and this feeling of déjà-vu came from the same place: all the Star Wars movies follow the same patterns, and The Force Awakens even more tightly than other movies.
How close is The Force Awakens to other Star Wars movies? Why? And if all seven movies follow these patterns… The Last Jedi will too. What if we could predict what happens in The Last Jedi following these patterns? Let’s look at all these questions.
