If you like this movie that’s fine, I’m not trying to take that away from you. But you shouldn’t dismiss the complaints of people who don’t like the movie by saying that they’re nitpicking and biased, or that most people like it, or that the movie actually makes complete sense in a way the critics just don’t understand. I don’t have a problem with people liking this movie, I have a problem with people who like the movie getting defensive when someone criticizes it. If you can just accept that some people have a different opinion than you, you’ll be a lot happier in life.
I’m fine with people not liking it. But a great many critics (and most specifically the pro-critics on RT) were nitpicking in ridiculous ways. I like the more thoughtful and detailed comments here, but sometimes I can tell someone just didn’t like it and is trying to figure out why. And sometimes the complaints are ones that could equally be leveled at any of the Star Wars movies. Plus I don’t think any of this film contradicts or retconns any of TLJ’s ending. It does contradict a great deal of that film, but so does that film’s ending. A great many characters in that film start off being completely wrong and only Kylo ends the film that way. But a great many people have taken those wrong avenues to be the purpose of the film and it isn’t. TLJ is about getting on the correct path. Rey, Luke, Poe, Finn, and Rose all have to learn this. Abrams got that and carried on from where the characters ended the last film. He was a producer of that film after all, so he has been involved in every aspect of all three films. So yea, I love the film and I do question some critiques of it because they run very counter to my experience with it. When someone says a film doesn’t do something that I clearly remember it doing, I’m going to point it out.