I really hate the Dark Empire plot. It was the one thing I was happy to have gone when Disney took over…
Too bad they repeated that same plot in The Rise of Skywalker, with the only difference being that, at least, in Dark Empire they tried to explain how the hell Palpatine managed to come back, whereas in The Rise of Skywalker they did not explain anything.
Exactly. Honestly, I enjoyed both TFA and TLJ decently enough, but my one hold out was how they would wrap it up with the yet unannounced IX. As soon as I heard “the laugh” at the end of the first trailer/teaser my heart dropped.