Too many cooks in the franchise kitchen, supervised by a Corporation

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2017)

There are numerous things to list as "wrong" or "disappointing" with this movie, but the most frustrating thing to me is the complete disregard for much of what was set in motion for this story in "The Force Awakens".
Rian Johnson has ignored or completely thrown away parts of this story he either didn't like or didn't want to tell (in the opening scene, it's symbolically done which should have served as a huge warning for this movie).
Unfortunately, it's not unlike what Disney did with the EU.
I'm not arguing that the EU should or should not have been scrapped, that's not my point - my point is that the more film makers Disney brings to this saga and continues to stand by this idea of "I don't like it, so I'm not addressing it" in future films, the more disjointed the saga will become.
George Lucas hired talented film makers to make his initial sequels but still held the reigns of the story.
He did the same with the prequels. And while I am no big fan of the prequels, the story does follow through far better in that trilogy than it has from TFA to TLJ.
The more film makers alter their installments to fit what they want to do rather than help continue the story that's been started, the worse it will get.
When JJ Abrams picks up Episode 9 and tries to turn the story back after this mess, this will feel like 3 separate movies that happen to have the same characters rather than a true, epic trilogy.