I guess I really didn’t like TFA’s setups and world building and I’m faulting TLJ for not answering questions that TFA should’ve answered in itself, so I guess I’m not being fair.
“How did the FO get almost limitless resources?” “Wtf is Snoke?” Well that’s more for TFA than for TLJ. TLJ did explain Kylo’s story, for example, even though I didn’t like the part Luke played in it.
Like Mithrandir said several pages ago, what RJ did with Luke was possibly the best way to go given what was setup in VII. The only thing I still disagree with RJ is that I don’t think Luke would ever even consider murdering Ben in his sleep, nor that it’d be something or some kind of instinct that would pass like a fleeting shadow.
I’m still not sure about most aspects of the movie though, but I tend to have somewhat negative feelings towards it. Both sides of all arguments have very good points though, which makes it very hard for me to make up my mind.
I agree. JJ left Johnson in a difficult if not impossible spot. I think Johnson made things worse, but JJ just handed him all the issues he couldn’t figure out how to deal with in his movie.
And as much as I don’t like the way Luke acts in this movie, the Luke-Rey-Kylo-Snoke storyline in this movie is not bad. My biggest complaints are with the Leia-Poe-Finn-Rose storyline.