Abrams does this in miniature constantly, in most of his films. The result is that they're heavily coincidence-driven (you don't have to plan a coincidence!) an

Abrams does this in miniature constantly, in most of his films. The result is that they're heavily coincidence-driven (you don't have to plan a coincidence!) and he often has to invent a coincidence to fix a coincidence he just introduced[0]. He's good enough at keeping action flowing that one may only notice the most egregious cases at first, but it's the kind of thing that once you realize how he operates, you can't not notice it. [0] My go-to example of this from Star Wars is the sequence in which Our Heroes just happen to find the Millennium Falcon, and Rey just happens to know how to fly it excellently, and then Han and Chewie just happen to show up on another ship with what can't conceivably have been more than 20 minutes' notice, assuming we want to be generous and grant that they were somehow notified—they show up because Abrams needs them there now, and so he just has them appear by whatever conveyance is convenient for him, that is, lets him keep flowing and not need to edit or re-arrange anything or operate under any constraints whatsoever—but now Abrams has written himself a second ship he doesn't need, so he... has another set of coincidences happen, for no plot reason aside from destroying the ship he just added but doesn't need anymore.