But what if you think Rey was already a good character? I certainly did, at least until the whole “you are a Palpatine” fiasco. But I feel like a major goal of this movie is to rationalize and streamline some of the messiness of TROS, bringing the sequels’ reception back to the mostly-positive outlook pre-2019.
Remember, both TFA and TLJ had a more than 90% positive critical reception, and I feel like the audience score would look the same way if sequel hate wasn’t weaponized during the Trump-era culture wars. People liked the sequels before TROS, Disney just needs to figure out how to make people like them again.
For one I wouldn’t take payed critics opinions seriously
You lost me here. Anyone who seriously says to ignore the opinions of professional critics and trust obviously review-bombed audience scores instead is not worth paying attention to.
Just food for thought- Chris Stuckmann is a top critic on RT, and he’s literally just Joe Blow with a YT channel. “Critics” are just people, and I don’t see why their opinions hold any more weight than someone who has at least a cursory knowledge of film.