TFA was a kid doing a cool jump off a ledge at a birthday party.
TLJ was a kid telling a joke that he heard from an adult that you don’t get until you remember it years later.
TROS was a kid who somehow talked you into trading your rice crispy treat for his rice cake at lunch and threw it into the ceiling fan.
TRoS is actually the best part of your trilogy.
Don’t underestimate how many people loathed the direction that TLJ was going in
I’m sure it’s in the thousands, sure. Thousands can seem like a lot of people if you’re packed into a convention hall, or watching a minor league sporting event. But when you’re dealing with tens of MILLIONS of tickets sold, blu-rays bought, and streams counted, thousands aren’t a whole hell of a lot.
I have the impression the haters are something like a third of people. Just speaking anecdotally from conversations IRL, that seems about right. Maybe only one quarter. I remember my college club banning discussion of the film for its controversy before I even had the chance to bring it up.
IMO, they needed an Episode 10. Frankly I’m unsure how to change TRoS to make it better without changing TFA and TLJ, but I can easily tell you how I’d do a two-movie follow-up to them.
I have no trouble wrapping things up in one film, assuming I’m allowed to stray far from what we got.