I suppose if what you’re looking for in film is just the “what,” and the overarching plot, that’s fine. But to me that’s only a fraction of what’s there. You’re overlooking so much of importance when you say it’s only details. Think that way if you please, but I frankly feel that outlook is monumentally misguided.
It’s not the “what”. Given that the “what” is so similar from a role point of view, the “how” should have been by force more different than what it was in the end.
Why not have Kylo shoot Han down in a dogfight while speaking to him on the radio,
Or have him executed by a platoon, or… they had plenty of ground to be creative. Far more than there was with the PT, which had its outline already written.
But no, it had to have that samurai-esque thing of making speeches, standing tense, etc.
If you find the word rehash a little too strong, then take repetitive. Because that is what it is to have already three stories about orphans who go out for adventure and find a destiny bigger than life while destroying a superweapon and face the evil that kills their adopting fathers.
One of the things I like most of RO is how quotidian and disengaged (some would say anticlimatic) it feels at times.
*we’ll find him, and bring him back!..and then he will tell them himself"
Check how that line was delivered. It’s something we have never seen in Star Wars so far.
Your son is gone and speaking of one’s former self in third person while trying to affirmate a totally made up identity, we’ve already seen that.