Some of you should consider adding up all the time you’ve spent writing posts that made a net zero contribution to the discussion (and your lives) before you give someone a hard time for putting time into something thoughtful that you might disagree with. Just scroll past it if it bothers you so much (granted it might take a minute).
I finally watched TLJ a couple weeks back. I liked some parts and not others. Visually superior to TFA, which looks cheap and plasticky in comparison. The background stories of the new characters still feel shallow. Rey is too powerful with inadequate training or explanation in my opinion. I could’ve done without the shoehorned humor, but I genuinely laughed when Luke tossed his light saber over his shoulder (almost like the scene was thumbing its nose at the over-the-top grandiosity of TFA’s ending) and when Rey felt the Force. I loved Hamill’s acting, but hated what they did to Luke’s character. Hux is a joke (much prefer the overt cruelty of ESB’s killing of failed admirals to Hux’s being thrown around by his boss in every scene when he screws up) and Snoke is just some dead CGI guy with no story. Really enjoyed the quiet moments when Kylo and Rey connected and thought the throne room sequence was well done. Chewie might as well have died in TFA with Han; they could have listed him as “Millennium Falcon Pilot” in the end credits. The drawn-out “chase” scene with the fleet was contrived. Almost every male/female relationship was like a bad sitcom where the husband is a dope with a harebrained scheme and his wife sets him straight in the end (no SJW/political comments on this please, I’m talking about poor storytelling and character tropes here). I liked that it was weird. The OT was weird sometimes (ANH and ROTJ more so than ESB) and TLJ brought back some of the weirdness.
I rated TFA a 5/10 when I first saw it and bumped it to a 6/10 after rewatching it. I feel kind of meh about the whole thing. I’d rate TLJ about the same, but it’s more polarizing for me. I’d rate the best parts at an 8 and the worst parts at a 3.