I’m a little baffled we’re only now starting a thread like this.

Overall, the trilogy was an uninspired mess with moments of greatness. Everything is needlessly derivative in both story and aesthetics. For settings we get a bunch of boring desert and forest planets. Only TRoS actually tried to tell an original story, but even then said story is utter crap. Only Rey, Luke, and Kylo get lightsabers because that’s what the OT did and god forbid we deviate from it. It’s blatantly obvious to me the Knights of Ren should’ve all had lightsabers.

Finn actually an excellent character in TFA, he just unfortunately never evolves out of being a Rey simp. I certainly wouldn’t call the character racist like fmalover. Rey is not OP in the slightest. She has the power level I’d expect her to, and I don’t get why everyone else is so up in arms about it. Luke doesn’t feel out of character at all. He feels like a believable progression of his RotJ self. Poe is…honestly not bad for someone who was supposed to die in the first 20 minutes.

Now for the good. The first 40 minutes of TFA are flat-out perfect. The rest needs a lotta work, but that opening is gold. I think bringing Palpatine back was not just good but necessary. He’s the thing that ties the whole Saga together. Was he handled well? Not particularly, but it’s better than nothing. And no, I don’t care about the Prophecy, not to mention it’s literally explained in the movie that balance was restored in RotJ and that it just wasn’t permanent balance. The two rhyming Han and Ben scenes are perfect. Rey and Kylo’s dynamic is great, and just Kylo as a whole. TRoS’s breakneck pacing feels 100% appropriate imo for a finale. I love Fuhrer Hux’s speech.

Oh and the tone across all three movies feels like a parody. No, not just TLJ, TFA did it too.