What a Mess

Rating: 1/10 (17 May 2020)

Was excited for Force Awakens and went in with an open mind. It was fine and had high hopes for the next one. Then the disaster of the Last Jedi happened. After that I thought that it couldn't possibly get any worse. Then Rise of the Skywalker happened. Wow what a messy script. So many plot holes. I don't even know where to start.
Rey was confirmed to be a Mary Sue in the Last Jedi and in this one she's just an jerk who listens to no one and does what she wants. She doesn't know the definition of teamwork and she's a hot head who doesn't seem to care about anything but herself and everyone just loves her for whatever reason. What a terrible character. The whole trio in Rey, Finn and Poe are completely incompetent and rely on luck and coincidence. Nothing makes sense and Palpatine was obviously shoehorned in after Last Jedi destroyed Snoke's character. So much retcon that contradicts everything that happened in Last Jedi.
Won't get too much into everything that was wrong because I would have entire book written by the time I'm done but the ending fight with Palpatine was just bad. One thing that bothered me more than anything about it is the fact that Palpatine told Rey that if she kills him then he will transfer to her body and take it over. Then she kills him and he just dies and doesn't take over her body. What!?
They had so many different directions to go after Return of the Jedi and this is what they chose? Force Awakens crapped on Han Solo, Last Jedi crapped on Luke and Rise of Skywalker crapped on Leia and the whole sequel trilogy crapped on the original. This trilogy is way worse than the prequels. I'm just going to pretend there was no sequel trilogy and continue to watch and enjoy episode 1 through 6. The story ended with Return of the Jedi and 7 through 9 is just a what if from some alternate reality that didn't really happen. What a complete disaster.