As many of you have posted previously, all of the problems of the ST are rooted in TFA.

I’ve posted that I don’t understand why this mess of a movie had such an overwhelmingly positive reception. Apart from pretty much being SW 2.0, we have the First Order which is every bit as powerful and wealthy as its predecessor the Galactic Empire even when ROTJ + supplementary material have made it clear the Empire is no more and what remains is but a small fraction of what once was, yet that small fraction is somehow capable of taking an ENTIRE GALAXY back to the status quo, building a Death Star about 10-20 times BIGGER than the original and is WEALTHIER than the New Republic (see Rose’s line in Canto Bight about how only the First Order can make you this wealthy). I also disliked the fact that the FO was so loyal to Snoke, a random Force wielder with no previous connection to the Empire. The FO should have been lead by a Council of former high-ranking Imperial military officials and political figures, and if Snoke was needed at all it should have been as an advisor of sorts representing the mystical aspect of the FO, not as “Supreme Leader”. The FO should have also been portrayed as using guerrilla warfare, infiltration, espionage, sleeper cells, subtly gathering their strengths by conquering seemingly unimportant systems without the NR noticing, indoctrinating their conquered systems into absolute loyalty, using streamlined Imperial technology, slowly manipulating the politicians to earn their favour and so on and so forth. But no, instead we got the Nu-Empire.

With Abrams returning I expect Episode IX to be every bit as awful as TFA, yet everyone will probably praise him for “course-correcting” Star Wars. sigh