What was the point in films 7 & 8

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2020)

Really what was the point in the other two films in this trilogy because Apart from Han Solo's death in 7 and Luke's death in 8 you could honestly watch this film straight after 6 and it wouldn't make a difference.
Those events are the only things needed for the story in 9 because I feel any previous character building of the new characters in this trilogy befor 9 was pretty much pointless.
The fact it gave you a two minute dumb explanation on how The Emperor came back and expected that to wash for the whole plot of the film was stupid. Clearly was never the original idea on how to end this trilogy because just my opinion it would have made more sense to introduce that plot a lot sooner like maybe at the end of film 7 or something?