TLJ did feel slightly disconnected to me the first few times I saw it in the theater, but after rewatching the whole saga in the few weeks before the TLJ blu-ray and then TLJ last night, it feels absolutely consistent. I think it’s a little difficult for me to get an accurate read on the tone of a movie like this until I can see it in isolation from theater audience reactions.
I think a big part of it must be the expectations thing. As evidenced by GothamKnight’s post, if you were expecting something after TFA and didn’t get exactly that, there might be a disconnect for you personally, even if in reality the two films actually fit very well together.
I don’t think it was even anything so neatly describable as having my expectations subverted. I just remember having this vague apprehension about how the two would play back-to-back, not so much as a consistent story but simply as a viewing experience.
To return to the WWII comparison, the First Order is more analogous to Nazi war criminals hiding out in South America than it is to post-war Germany.
Well it’s a mix of that and post WWI Germany I think (and also a bit of modern neo-nazism).
Definitely.