Let’s not forget this is another story thread taken directly from the middle chapter of the previous trilogy used in the middle chapter of this one.
Yes, let’s. The only comparison to be made is that DJ betrays them.
The point is that we didn’t need a side character with questionable moral values that you think is going to help our heroes and ends up betraying them in the middle chapter of a trilogy AGAIN.
I could be describing both Lando and Benicio Del Toro.
And it’s not even the visuals of the throne room that were rehashed, they literally copied and pasted dialogue from RotJ in the scene. Snoke showing Rey the destruction of the fleet is exactly like the Emperor doing the same thing with Luke (but in RotJ it was a lot more meaningful and had the appropriate context). Rey and Ren trying to one turn the other to their respective sides, much like Vader and Luke, except that Vader and Luke had reasons and good motivations to do so and believe they would succeed (or in Luke’s case, the compassion and belief and hope that Vader would turn good).
TLJ is a more camouflaged (than TFA) OT homage in terms of aesthetics, with a hate message in terms of content.