Art is subjective. You might think some of this is stupid, I happen to think it’s a masterpiece.
The grass is always greener, but “masterpiece” seems a tad strong for a partial screenplay of a film that was never made.
Yeah I don’t get how you can call 5 pages of a first draft script of an unproduced script a “masterpiece.” That’s more than a little silly.
There is some good stuff in there, though. I rather liked Trevorrow’s version of Ben’s redemption. I think J.J.s version was good too. Both seem a bit abrupt though.
I struggle to see how Trevorrow’s is better in any way. Ben’s turn is already abrupt in TROS, but here it’s almost comically so. Essentially it happens the same way - Kylo’s about to kill Rey but Leia contacts him and turns his heart, then Ben gives Rey his lifeforce to survive sacrificing himself - except all mashed together in a couple minutes. You’re missing him reconciling with the murder of his father, and trying to make amends in any sort of way (facing Palpatine). Honestly, it might even be a stretch to call it redemption at all. He just decides not to kill Rey, which isn’t terribly impressive, and then sacrifices himself to save her, which is only necessary because he himself had been killing her. Hardly a selfless act of atonement.
The reason Kylo sucks so much in what we’ve seen and know about Trevorrow’s script is because it’s a complete evaporation of his character progression. He’s back to being the Vader wannabe from TFA, he just happens to be more successful at it. He’s become one dimensional, without a care for the complications developed in the previous installments. Which is to say nothing of his relationship with Rey. I don’t care if they didn’t go romance or not, but obviously TLJ set up a much more complex relationship between the two than good guy bad guy (which TROS continued), and they seem to have completely dropped that here.