What the hell happened?

Rating: 2/10 (18 December 2017)

This was like having a bad dream the night before that it sucked, and they did a bunch of things you hated in it. Things they would never do. Things you realize would be stupid once you wake up, and get back to the real world. Except this isn't a dream.
This movie was awful for so many reasons.
The humor was painful, and inappropriately placed. I didn't mind the gag with Poe messing with Hux even. It fit Poe's character. Humor just as silly popping up randomly for the rest of the movie was grossly out of place though.
If you didn't catch I have this marked SPOILERS, here's another warning.
Why the hell did they kill Snoke? In such a half-assed way as well! A predictable, mysterious return on his part in Episode 9 would actually save a lot of face for the current state of the franchise at this point. His death cheapens the whole concept of the First Order. A concept that was already stretched as thin as it could be, without some detail revolving around Snoke to surface, and truly explain their quick rise to power.
Leia in space? Not mortally hurt by the blast that put here there in the first place? A blast that killed everybody else on that bridge? Then she subconsciously uses the force to survive and get back in. Just leave this whole part on the cutting room floor. It was completely unnecessary. It seems like a dirty trick because they knew people were expecting her to die. Then she doesn't anyway. They also seemed to ad no real damage control to set up the next one for her passing. (Rest in peace you crazy, amazing, legend of a woman!)
They did not progress the story of the trilogy at all. Snoke was killed. Luke died. (Just about the same way Neo died in the Matrix now that I think about it. Just... sigh.) We learned nothing more about the new path the Star Wars saga is currently on. Oh! Right. Rey's parents are actually nobodies. It will be nice if that's dispelled in the next one as well. Who did she think she was waiting for on Jakku? That concept carries so much weight in the previous film to just be pointless.
I hope the next one can save all the bad things about this one. Perhaps Disney/Holleywood are trying a trick a lot of TV shows use these days. So many times a good show these days can end an episode in a WTF kind of way that all falls into place in the next one. If not I don't know what to say. It's better than Episode's I and II. Like that really says much.
I don't understand what Rian Johnson was thinking. I really don't. I thought Looper was great. Ozymandias was one of the best episodes of Breaking Bad. Maybe Disney micromanaged the hell out of it. It kind of seems that way. Regardless, I could not have imagine I would end up this disappointed, and sort of pissed off at this movie. Episode 3 didn't even disappoint this bad when Vader yelled "Noooooo!" and that was that. I have learned to like that film, but it was a bit of a let down as well.
Overall, my only hope now is Episode 9 is poised to make me look like a fool in this review. I can only hope.