Connect the dots. It's a fun fun time

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2019)

Arm chair critics are harsh and i would like to see them do a better job and not get blasted. I've been a huge fan all my life and I've read so many of the stories. I don't just like Star Wars I love Star Wars! But to go into this movie thinking that everything was going to be perfect is pure crud. But, in my opinion it all works. I see connections that others say came out of now where. I think it was more emotional and feeling than analytical story telling. Some of the negatives I'm reading...
1) Rey is a palpatine all of a sudden. "What?!" Come on, like, you couldn't feel that there was more after TLJ? You really thought that her parents were nobody and accepted that?
2)Palpatines sudden emergence as the driving force. For anyone who knows about sith, they can be immensely powerful...more powerful than Jedi even, and the power of life and death was how palpatine lured Anakin away in the first place. He wasn't lying. He could have saved padme. He didn't so he could tap into the anger. Sith feed of the negative energies and there is so much more of that in the universe. That's why there is never more than two!! Master and apprentice with apprentice the majority of the time killing the master to gain power. There's always a host of Jedi. And remember the force is always trying to balance itself. In the prequels, palpatine arose from an over abundance of Jedi... i feel and why he is so powerful. Upon wiping out the Jedi and the death of powerful light siders like yoda, the universe kept feeding us more powerful force users to counter act each other. Also why they came from the same two blood lines. Trying to consolidate and find harmony.
3) Rey being so powerful...again balance I feel and Anakin had the same sensitivity at a very young age. Reys emergence gave me the feeling of a neutral and why her saber is gold. It was a theme Ben was trying to push on her but he was to Dark. She felt the dark side as well. I don't feel she is committed fully to the light and will be a balance the force is looking for until of course newer generations arise.
4) Huxley being a spy just bc he hates Ben. Well, duh. How is this a problem? The highest ranking military man has been embarrassed and bullied at every turn by Ben, add his failures which he also blames Ben for and now he is demoted. Pettiness is a very real human reaction to having everything and then nothing. He's spoiled and a brat and wants "revenge".
5)The huge fleet. It's palpatine. He showed himself to be a good strategist with extreme patience and cunning. He didn't overthrow the republic overnight. He also seems to have prescience or a type of vision, as Rey was showing as well. So 25 or so years in a huge galaxy full of a gazillion people. I'm not looking that hard.
6)The only problem I ever have, ever, is just the empires sole plan is always a weapon that can destroy a planet. Other than that.....JUST ENJOY IT! ITS FANTASY and FUN! I can connect in my mind so many more dots but the passing of and era hit me in the feels. It was a good run. I absolutely loved Bens conflict and his and Reys connection was a huge build up.