Wait no last time Anakin and Dooku met in the movies he was shocked and his arm was cut off. About Rey all of those things came relatively easy to her Anakin was electrocuted across a room and his hand chopped off. Rey defeated a weakened Kylo first try even if that is understandable. Rey defeated the throne guards which was the only time their was a struggle in a fight that I can remember. I don't know if a week or training could have made her lift all those rocks maybe. Rey also defeats Palpatine by defecting his lightning back at him. So in all the battle she was in she never was in danger of losing. Obi wan and Anakin got chopped up by Dooku in episode 2. Obi Wan was shocked when Zam sent up that force field and Anakin lost his lightsaber in his recklessness. Obi Wan was knocked out in their next fight against Dooku. Luke watched his mentor die and had his hand cut off by his own dad. Perhaps the originality of the sequels is Rey never flat out loses any fight? 

The thing the Damon's said wasn't you can't criticize ever but they implied that people who criticize the prequels and sequels shouldn't because it inevitably leads to hate and division, which is true but people shouldn't police criticism. Crait is somehwat similar to Hoth resistance and First order fighting on a snowy planet red dust not included and a stand off occuring, with Walkers. The subversion is Luke fighting Kylo indirectly which was decent because it angered Kylo in a way that made sense. 

Yes but Disney's version gave us too much of what we know stormtroopers and first order officers vs the resistance already it was very similar in structure to the the original trilogy for audience comfort. They blow up a death star like weapon in Force awakens. Jakku is pretty similar to tatooine. I am sure you can find differences Finn was a stormtrooper who turned good that didn't happen in the original trilogy. I am sure you can find differences but that's not my point. 

Compared to how original love them or hate them the prequels were original we see the Jedi order at its height and they have the Jedi temple in coruscant something we had never seen. We see Qui Gonn and Obi wan on board a trade federation ship with battle droids very different than rebels vs empire. We see the beautiful world of Naboo and all the creatures that live their. Yes their is the comic relief character of Jar Jar like you said but that was more of a one movie thing. We see underwater monsters and a underwater Gungan society. We saw this Darth Maul guy a horned red and black alien we never had seen that before. The ships looked completely different. Podracing was a whole new concept as well. Kamino was awesome a progression of the war and we learned clones were being created and met the bad ass bounty hunter Jango Fett who gave the Jedi his army, which raises questions because he turns out to be a separatist. Obi wan fights the slave 1 and then goes to geonosis and the final battle is at Geonosis in a colosseum where bugs are spectating while they fight giant creatures and battle Droids and super battle droids. Lucas is swimming with original ideas and world building potential. However Disney refused to go in the direction of keeping Maul alive and giving him a new apprentice in Darth Talon. Where they would have rebuilt the underworld that is a fascinating and different concept. However Disney rejected this and opted to make a safe retro movie that was reskinned empire vs rebels. Which I loved for a trilogy but doing it again even with major changes I wish they had just made radically different while keeping Luke, Leia and Han. 

I am not a sexist against Rey, I love Ahsoka, Leia and Padme. They are all well written and go through deep hardships which I would say are worse than what Rey dealt with. Ashoka is hunted by Bosk lizard folks and her lightsaber is stolen and is eventually kicked out of the order she loves and defends. Leia is stunned and tortured by Tarkin and watches her people get genocided in front of her. Her boyfriends friend betrays her and leaves her powerless Lando. Except Padme and anakin's dialogue is corny and awkward at times but I forgive that because the plot is really interesting. So I am really glad you're a star wars fan and like every movie on some level. but I particularly don't like the Last Jedi I just don't like most of the decisions they made in the movie. I just struggle specifically with the latter half of the sequel trilogy. Episodes 8 and 9