I must’ve missed the Ewoks in TFA and R1.
It’s not the Ewoks. I don’t mind them too much and I actually like most of their scenes, just not the ones during the battle. Movies can be fun and even cute sometimes and still be good, but the Ewoks really should have had blasters or something and made the battle more realistic and less of a farce.
For me, it’s the lighthearted “don’t take any of this seriously” tone that happens in too many scenes that bothers me. Once a film starts being too ridiculous and not taking itself even remotely serious, I personally find it off-putting. In TFA, the parts I hated the most were ones like the unrealistic Rathtar scene. Han could care less, he acts like a fly got inside his house, not much more, and the other main characters are getting their heads thrown into hard metal walls and then getting up like there’s nothing wrong with them. Meanwhile when Luke was nearly drowned in the trash compactor, he surfaces soaking wet, covered in garbage particles, and gasping for air. See the difference?
Then there are the battles. In TFA, the rebels just fly in and go pew-pew yippee we did it. Wasn’t that fun? There’s nothing real about it at all. There’s a moment in the battle at Maz’s Castle where an X-wing swoops in and fires at some bad guys on the ground to save Finn or someone at the last second, and the camera cuts to the pilot smiling like it’s another day at the Disney office. The exact same shot was recreated in Rogue One, where the Rebel pilot they kept showing was smiling and enjoying himself during a battle where all the good guys die. What is wrong with that picture? Anyone remember what Wedge and the other pilots looked like when the camera was on them during the OT?
And don’t even get me started on the idea of watching multiple star systems get blown up in real time across the galaxy with nothing but your naked eyes looking up at the sky.