What the fuck was this movie? They let this absolute madman of an indie director turn Star Wars into an experimental rumination on nihilism. Everything that’s set up in TFA and the first half of TLJ is rendered completely pointless and a waste of time. Snoke, Rey’s Parents, Luke’s depression and Nihlism, are the obvious examples here. I know Rian did this on purpose to like prove a point, but its not executed well. i mean, you spend 2/3 of the film on this B plot about disabling the tracker and it ends up being completely irrelevant. The case to be made here is that “failure is the best teacher” but setting things up without paying them off is not how screenplays are supposed to work. TFA may have been unoriginal but it was at least coherent. Unless you’re Terrence Malick, please stick with the standard hero’s journey, especially in a Star Wars film.

“I fundamentally disagree with everything you’ve written about my character”
-Mark Hamill

EDIT: Furthermore, the lack of organization between the two sequel directors is astounding. In TFA Luke has created a map to himself so that people can find him when they need him and then in TLJ he says he didn’t want to be found. What!? Where is the lore master of this trilogy, making sure things are consistent between the films?