Well I am probably just an out of touch old fart! 😃

But…wouldn’t a better idea for the ST been about following Luke’s attempts to rebuild the order? So, like a lot of others have said, the conception was flawed from the start.

Or was it? I remember reading that the original writer for TFA (Arndt) said he struggled to produce a script because Luke always dominated the scenes whenever he was in it. So there was a last minute script done by Abrams and Kasdan that essentially was a soft reboot.

I’m not totally sure about what happened in pre-production, but from what I have read (which is of course limited) it seems that TFA was not originally envisioned as a soft reboot.

Anyway; one concept I liked was of Kylo Ren being powerful, but ineffective. Strong in The Force, but militarily and politically inept. I would have liked Ren to have been killed off by Snoke in TLJ and have Rey join him. Luke comes out of retirement to join Finn and Poe, realizing that galaxy needs the Jedi.