A horrible service to the story of Star Wars

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 2018)

Star Wars would have been better off if Disney just didn't make any more films...
The first in this franchise to forcibly eject itself out of what made the franchise so great. Star Wars was and has continued to be, up until this film, kept set apart and a shining example of an ongoing tale that spoke into our condition as humans by being secondly, a science fiction movie series and firstly, an opera in every classical sense minus singing, set on a wider literary canvas of space and technology and magic. Setting precedent for all future Star Wars films, this is no longer the case. Star Wars, according to Disney's new iteration in the hands of Ryan Johnson is and should forever be simply a sweeping science fiction epic, rife with space battles, new imaginative monsters and planets and irrelevant plot lines whose irrelevance are buried beneath the glitz of newness and the unexpected - however trite or insulting these "new" or "unexpected" things may be.
Short of beginning with the classic Star Wars crawl that read something like, "The following movie will minimize, insult, or make moot everything you have come to care about in this series", Ryan Johnson did just that.
No more characters you have come to love, some for over thirty years.
No more character development.
Welcome new characters who you have no reason to care about do heroic things that the characters you love died before being able to do themselves.
Be led to hope in countless scenarios only to be shown after long story arcs that they were irrelevant to the plot, characters, franchise, and story in every possible way.
Watch 2017esque shrugging leadership, non communication for no reason, and smug humor replace the 80s sense of commitment, camaraderie, character, and resolve.
Before your very eyes The Last Jedi makes the past films shallow and meaningless.
According to the new "developments" with regards to the force, the jedi, and all conflict previously won at high cost, the entire original series films (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) are pointless now. There is no reason why anything in any of these movies that we cheered for when we first saw them even happened. At least according to The Last Jedi.
If Ryan Johnson secretly hated J.J. Abrams, this movie would make way more sense. The way he destroyed any and all continuity from The Force Awakens would have been the perfect insult for someone who did such a tremendous job with that film and who is slated to have to end the entire 9 part saga. My hat is off to you J.J. mostly for praying you can somehow resurrect this mangled corpse from the dead.
I don't hate Ryan Johnson. I just hate what he did to the greatest movies of all time.
I LOVE the Star Wars movies. Even the Prequels!
I HATE the Last Jedi.