As someone who saw the Original Trilogy as a teen, the saga of skywalker is more of a tragedy than anything else now.
I have unfortunately endured, now 6, movies after rotj and the best one was rogue one in my opinion. Dallas stories are better than anything that has been put out in this trilogy.
It's a mess and i think the movie did it's best trying to put together what TLJ did. It's unfortunate how people can get a story thrown in their lap and tell something so totally different.
I always go back to how the force was viewed in the OT.
How it took serious mental training, and time to learn to use it , even just a few rocks.
The force became some sort of shazam super power , more and more ridiculous each movie.
The rebels, destroy the empire, luke is now "the" jedi.
The force awakens, and leia couldn't keep it together for 30 years?
Luke couldn't train one generation of jedi?
The rebels are dead again , already, by a new "empire"?
No story, explaining it in the movies...just bending the skywalkers over , yet again and creating a complete collapse of everything , right after they defeated evil.
None of it is good story telling, none of it makes sense, and reys backstory is just mind boggling to think about.
They didn't learn their lesson after the prequels.
Rey Palpatine.. That made me cringe. It sounded like being taken from a theory of a Youtuber on the internet.
I understand that Abrams wanted give her a meaningful lineage as a way to justify her powers but in my opinion, that was unnecessary.
Sure, they still retain that her parents were nobodies because they chose to be in order to protect Rey, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth.
And I was hoping for an explanation as to why Palpatine decided to have an affair that would produce a child - did he have a vision of sorts or was it an experiement of Goodrum-esque proportions? I can only speculate.
Definitely rushed, desperately trying to restore anything that is left after the TLJ disaster.
Resulting in too many rapid scenes, too fast cut-offs, too much shortages.
