^^^ Bro I completely agree.

I too am not a fan of the sequels for the most part based on your comment. (DISCLAIMER: If you enjoy the movies in full, in part, etc. … that’s great and I am happy for you and we all can enjoy and dislike whatever in a civil way! I wish I could like them, but I can’t … but don’t let it diminish your joy!)

There were some good ideas in them, but the lack of direction as well as being a reboot of the OT … it basically meant what happened in the OT different matter since everything regressed back to it. The movies should have been a progression of the story from the OT … not a retelling.

Instead of the empire v rebels again … could have been an outside force/species/etc. coming from the unknown reason versus the New Republic. The PT was about losing freedom, the OT about winning it back, the ST could have been maintaining it … you know, learning lessons from both the PT and ST.

What could have been …