Unoriginal end to an unoriginal trilogy with characters difficult to care about.

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2019)

I think Star Wars stories about Jedi and Sith should always consist of a similar plot, which is; to tell a story that is centered around the prospect of whether or not a force sensitive person will rise or fall. However, the story needs to flesh out their characters or it will not end up as a climatic one.
The problem with the third trilogy is that we never got to see why our main characters suffered from their demons. We never got to see the traumas they went through, we only heard about them, and were rarely depicted on screen. We never saw Rey struggle as an orphaned child, feeling neglected, unworthy, and low. We never got to see Kylo Ren struggle as an overconfident young man, feeling disrespected, like we did Anakin do in the first 3 episodes. We were only told about the very things that gave Kylo and Rey their demons but we were never riding along the characters on their life long journey.
This is why this trilogy fails. It's because the characters were not fleshed out and too much screen time was wasted on other things beside character development. This already tried plot driven story about a hero's journey would be okay if we witnessed what caused all the character conflict, but we were only told about it and never got to feel it. The story in these 3 films was so conservative and unoriginal too. Kylo was basically another Anakin, Rey another Luke, and Luke another Obi-Wan. This trilogy was a rehash of the first trilogy and I will end this review by saying I miss you George Lucas!