After the understandably ultra-brand-safe Episode VII of the Skywalker-Solo saga, director Rian Johnson, the mind behind Brick, Looper and one of the best episodes, if not the very best episode, of Breaking Bad (The Fly), took over the reins of Episode VIII. Sufficed to say, most of the excitement for the film was primarily because of the director's pedigree and the thematic ambition he was primed to bring to a franchise that is historically light in depth and complexity.
In the newest entry to the Star Wars saga, the opening crawl gives you all the bones of the plot. The leftov....