I really enjoyed TFA, though I had hoped they’d gotten the retreading out of their system and was glad JJ Abrams wasn’t doing the whole trilogy. It smelled like Star Wars, though it felt a little anemic. With a few particularly frustrating aspects, it bore its flaws pretty well and served to get me excited for what was to follow.

TLJ, while overly contentious and contrarian at times, offered something of substance grown out of TFA. I had a journey about this movie, going from displeased about muh hero Luke to digging the gist of it. It elevated the sequel trilogy somewhat. It took some risks, but let’s be honest: it still retreaded the OT pretty hard.

TROS was just silly, and that’s too bad. I think they would rather have put out something comfortably mediocre and uninspired than take up any real inspiration. I could only laugh, and I’m glad I could at least do that. It’s the anti-TFA, making you less excited about this whole thing and strangling the characters back into nothingness. Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s hard to imagine Trevorrow producing something worse, even with the sad passing of Fischer. JJ was the absolute incorrect choice in any artistic sense.