People are going to warm up to this one. It’ll take some time, because it’s so different. But it will happen.
I do hope you’re right. And maybe Ep9 will give this a new slant.
But you know what? I’ve heard this ‘it’s just different’ defence a lot, and that’s not why I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it because large chunks of it were lame, dialogue in places was awful, whole plots were redundant/cheesy/boring, etc. It didn’t just fall down for me as a SW film, it fell down on basic movie stuff too.