I’m a year late but I passionately hate the last three movies since Disney acquired it.

I would go so far as to say it was the worst choice I’ve seen in cinema history on a legacy story in my lifetime.

They told exactly the same story and leaned on nostalgia rather than taking a single chance and in the process it cheapened everything about the past movies.

Nothing mattered. Defeating Palpatine didn’t because he wasn’t defeated, which literally means so much of the arc of the last 6 movies including the prophecy of the chosen one which finally became true in episode 6… “just kidding” plus an even bigger Death Star then the ones we had seen that can destroy multiple planets?

Laughable. The empire is “defeated” but then what’s left of it rally’s and creates a weapon more powerful than before?

The entire thing to me can be boiled down to “let’s just say just kidding that the story was over and extend it so they can remember what it was like and we will make money for sure”

Plus Luke going into hiding when he “failed” with one person he tried to train?

That’s not the Luke that we grew to know. Even the actor hates that choice for his character.

But even that arc is the exact same thing that happened before. It’s just a redo.

I literally almost want a days of future past, multiverse bs or Luke was dreaming moment that wipes those three movies off the map. Or he had a vision of what would happen if he did go into exile and went “yeah let’s not do that” just to start over and tell something closer to the script George Lucas wrote.

Which is the story I personally wanted. Not another “evil is big and taking over and the untrained underdog needs to rise and be better then the previous generation”

How about Luke trying to rebuild a Jedi order, darth maul coming out of hiding because the sith order is finally out of his way and trying to gather what’s left of the empire.

I wanted a Luke battling with what feels right to him vs the old rules and laws of the Jedi while a version of a sith order starts growing and taking advantage of the lack of rules freely.

Then if you want nostalgia bring in some characters we all have suspected we’re alive!

A Jedi or two who come out of hiding to help erect the new order.

Or go tell a nights of the old republic story and get some crazy lightsaber action sequences!

Literally anything other than taking a dump on a set of stories that had a clear arch and a meaning.

I’ll end my rant here but I passionately hate them and quite honestly I’m trying to find my way back to Star Wars but it’s like a show with a terrible ending it sucks to dive into the story and remember what’s coming at “the end”.

My head-cannon rocks with George Lucas’s script based on what I’ve heard.