I don’t doubt it was a last second decision. But that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a warranted one.

I think both of you are forgetting that at its core Star Wars is a fairy tale. It’s for 12 year olds. Nev, your argument for how it should have been about the systems that subvert democracy would definitely work in a political drama or some movie that is for a much older audience. It definitely works as an underlying message in the prequels or TLJ, but I don’t believe it should be the overall message of the saga.

I much prefer the mythical good guys v. bad guys side of things, and the struggles that the good people go through to resist the evil side.