Well...

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2019)

It is what it is. Could they have done better? Yes. The f-ed up with the 8th episode by choosing a trash director. I don't get why people say the narrative is absurd. It's a basic race to the epic catharsis. The end was fine. It made sense. It was the predictable end to a predictable story. It's a lot of eye candy with childish goofy stuff to sell toys to the mind controlled consumer populous. In space. That's what Star Wars always was.
If I would direct a new trilogy I would make it much more cerebral. New perspectives never before imagined with this universe. The best part was Palpatines planet and his legion of siths. The monotone brutalist looking rows of empiric ships in rows was a beautiful picture. I would have loved to see more of Emperor Palpatines immense dark power sooner and more immense. Something like he moving the whole planet and setting half the galaxy on fire just with his power. I think it made sense that ray broke the spell in the end by not repeating the dualist cycle.
The whole space horse people part was totally redundant tho.
Star Wars was always High Concept Trash people.