
A key lesson seems to have been learned by Lucasfilm after the fan backlash to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Yes, that film was so detached from reality that its fridge-nuking sequence made Looney Tunes look like social realism, but with its History Channel hypothesis that Mayan gods were, in fact, aliens, it was clear to Lucasfilm that wherever they took the next installment, they had to honor the series with a suitably galaxy-brained plot twist.