I want to read every draft of every one of the films. Not possible with what is currently out there.
Same. In fact I’d probably love more than anything to read the drafts of JJ’s IX.
I think the key to why some of us think TROS is a good final film is how epic the battle is. The series is titled Star Wars. The hallmark of the series has been the space battles. In TROS we get one actually in the atmosphere of Exogol. I really haven’t head anything about this that has any descent space battle. I think the Stromtrooper rebellion is a cool idea, but one that needs more time to play out. That would have been a cool thing to have Finn and Rose address in TLJ instead of Fathiers and gamblers. But to bring it out just in the final film seems a little rushed to me. For me, the epic nature of Palaptine, a fleet of planet killers, and so many other things about TROS just were so much better than what I see here. I just don’t see the epic nature and how that adds to the saga lore.
Personally I thought the final space battle in TROS was weak sauce. Nothing much happens besides the fleet of “people” showing up. Honestly DOTF is kind of similar, there’s a space battle without much of a purpose and that exact moment is in it (right down to Lando leading the charge). It’s actually better than the moment in TROS because it’s properly set up in the rest of the script.
The only thing it’s missing I guess is the “epic” fleet of Star Destroyers. But DOTF has what basically no SW film has, which is an epic LOTR-style ground battle. Maybe the stormtrooper rebellion isn’t terribly well set up in TFA and TLJ (shame about that deleted Phasma scene), but it’s still a fitting end for Finn’s arc and feels fitting in a larger sense for the saga.