I think what ultimately led me to not love the sequel trilogy so far is how unrealistic Rey’s character is. I agree that Luke didn’t get much training, but what the hell is this? The girl was pulling off mind tricks out of nowhere, she has mastered several force abilities that took years for Luke to master, and she has only had 3 lessons from Luke and that’s it. Rey wasn’t even bested by anyone yet (and I don’t think she will), and we’re two movies in. She was fooled by Snoke/Kylo, yes, but this film didn’t feel like her low point, and it probably was. I can see that she was challenged, but she didn’t lose. The rest of the good guys did, but she didn’t. Ughh
If someone disagrees and is able to give me logical reasons for all of this, please do.
Specifically for The Last Jedi, I didn’t like what they did to Luke’s character, as Mark said, “I fundamentally disagree with everything you did to my character” or something like that. But the execution was so brilliant, and Mark was so amazing, that I give it a pass. But I don’t believe that Luke, the most hopeful guy in the galaxy, would even consider killing someone simply because there’s darkness inside them. And I’m not sure if I’d buy crazy Luke if not for Mark. But because I did, oh boy Luke was AMAZING.