The writing is terrible

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2018)

Every major scene is so poorly written and loaded with plot holes - did the writers all work independently of each other? Did anyone bother to check continuity? Luke says: "I wasn't afraid of this power then... I am now." Except we see in a flashback sequence he tried to kill Kylo out of his fear for his power. This is just a minor plot hole compared to the others. Even the technology used in this movie seems dumb. Missiles in zero-gravity space that have a decided ballistic arc. Spaceships with bomb-bay doors dropping bombs like WWII. People and ships flying through shields like they're not there - until the shields are there as a plot device. Opening a door into the vacuum of space? Why not. Rebels dig into trenches on their last holdout planet - to fight off a fleet of spaceships. Enemy decides not to use its fleet of spaceships to fight them and instead gets down on the ground to fight them hand-to-hand. Hux, the enemy commander, withdraws his Tie fighters that were literally on the verge of obliterating the Rebel cruiser - why? "We can't cover your fighters from here..." It just goes on and on. But all these nitpicks pale to the plot holes, poor writing, and even poorer character development this movie abounds with.