What’s funny to me is people complained that TFA played it too safe, now this did the opposite of that and people are still complaining.
Why is this funny? Why do people have to like this movie because it didn’t recycle OT plot points? That’s the lowest bar I can think of. Is it so outrageous that they still wanted a Star Wars movie? Is overcorrecting and not remaining consistent with characters, plot and tone impossible? I would also argue this movie is not too different at it’s core, you end up at the same point that TFA ended minus a few characters we knew nothing about anyway.