5 years ago

@thoroughmas Yeah TLJ, at the expense of pleasing fans, introduced so many interesting things, so many plot points that could have been used to propel the finale. Instead a good chunk of ROS was blown on undoing so much of it, often in the most uninteresting and uninspiring ways. <br /> <br /> I wanted a filmmaker who wouldn't listen to the internet hate mob, have faith, and stay the course. Stick with it and close the story that 7 and 8 together set up, show them that TLJ wasn't just about upsetting fans and was instead the middle act, where the complications arise that are to be resolved in the final act. The overarching arc of this trilogy is now the Jedi will save us, actually the Jedi aren't the heroes we think they are because they got us into this mess in the first place, oh just kidding they are heroes we're saved.<br /> <br /> Instead they were scared off by reddit and all but ignored the set up and just made a generic action movie, the exact thing everyone seemed to be shouting that they wanted. Episode 9 ignores both 7 and 8, but also everything we learnt in episodes 1, 2, and 3. It's just killing Palpatine again because why not, we miss the guy.<br /> <br /> But I do agree, the Ben Solo story is fantastic, easily the best part of this trilogy. I thought he was just going to replay the Vader story all over again, but it was unique and interesting.

5 years ago

@jaw72 Totally agree with you. I'm struggling to understand the reasoning for many things in this movie beyond "fans might think that's cool". It does not have the faith to commit to its own ideas.<br /> Surely even those who didn't like TLJ would have preferred this movie to at least respect what had been set up, in order to strengthen the saga overall.<br /> Oh well.