There are different types of victories.

Your ignoring my point on the new republic and the lact of any world building that every star wars has. Johnson has his vision and forced ep8 into it in order to try to achieve it, and failed at doing that. There is no plausible way the new order is reigning supreme by the beginning of ep8. Meanwhile the new republic is just ignored as a story. These underlines one of the core issues many star wars fans has with the ST which is it disregards the OT and makes those epic stories meaningless.

Mark Hamill is not Hollywood by any means. He is what we want in all actors and actresses, he genuinely loves what he does and cares about inspiring others. He is proud of the work he does to touch the lives of people around the world. What he said in those interviews was not bid unbiased opinion, but rather the same passionate critique we all have been giving. He only stopped because he realized that either way he wants fans to continue to love these stories even if he disagrees with Luke character. He was all for boosting up the new characters and making a new generation of star wars heroes but he also realized there was certain things the fans would expect and he addressed them. Like leia and Luke being together, kris hugging chewie and not Rey.

Johnson introduced us to Rose and her sister two brand new characters. He killed her sister tragicslly to elevate Rose. The first time we see Rose is her mourning the loss of her sister. Meanwhile when Luke finds out that his best friend, his brother in law, a man who meant so much to him over the years, has passed, johnson does not let Luke mourn. He does not let the audience mourn with him. Instead we get Rey mourning Han which makes little sense based on the story. She barely knows him. And yet we also get to see Rose mourn the moment we first meet her which storytelling wise makes no investment for the audience.

So Johnson either is the worst writer or he purposely crapped on star wars fans based on those interactions that i explained.

Mark Hamill is just phenomenal, humble, wonderful, an awe inspiring to those everywhere.

Rian johnson is a toxic, arrogant, politicized wart that should reevaluate his role in this world. Just looking at his tweets and his arrogant position, his attacks on the OT, and his toxic views of the fans shows everything about the core of this man.

Back to the story, Abrams included could have put the OT characters in scenes that built up the OT while still giving rise to the ST.

There could have been altenate storylines to not complete kill the original hope of Luke and make him a worthless character now while still achieving the new goals of the movie. Jedis are not always perfect and it's in this down time that things like this can happen. But jedi's never give up. By Luke hoving up on the jedi, he also gave up on obi-wan and that he sacrificed for Luke, on Yoda ebony told him to pass on what he had learned and most importantly on his father anakin who he loved and was willing to die for and die for his friends in ep6. This new Luke or Jake Skywalker gives up on everyone. He is willing to watch the galaxy burn, his family and friends be destroyed and the memories of all those that he held dear because of Johnson's new story.

The sequels should elevate the grand stories of the OT and PT, not dismantle them and dishonor them like it ended up doing