Star Wars Died In The Last Jedi

Rating: 1/10 (24 November 2018)

I saw the original trilogy in 3 different theaters; the second film at a drive-in, actually, and the third film at a theater overseas. I had both versions of the original trilogy on VHS, the prequel trilogy in DVD's, and at some point I got both trilogies in box set DVD/Blue Ray combos. I got The Force Awakens in the DVD Blue Ray combo, then Rogue One the same way. Force Awakens and Rogue One both had certain things I wished were different, but those few small things were outnumbered and outweighed by greater things which I was grateful to see and experience. Not just nostalgia, but new stuff. A workable balance of old stuff and new stuff, interconnected, to make them fit together like they belong. Force Awakens and Rogue One needed to be that, and they were. Then some astonishingly underqualified folks with zero clues as to what Star Wars is meant to be came along and took a wrecking ball to the entire point of Star Wars, destroying its foundation, and with it, its entire mythology and purpose. Force Awakens had the potential to be one of the greatest Star Wars films, IF its many questions had been answered profoundly in The Last Jedi. Not only were The Force Awakens' questions NOT answered thusly, they weren't answered at all! In fact, many of The Force Awakens' points were outright contradicted! Force Awakens was highly dependent upon Last Jedi to give it its validation, which Last Jedi failed to do, so Last Jedi took Force Awakens down with it. Wasn't there ANYONE involved who could see during the process that this was a disaster in the making? Well of course, there had to be, but they were ignored by the clueless deciders who falsely believe they know best. There was one person in particular who has been involved since the beginning and knew Star Wars almost as well as its creator, and this person knew it was all wrong, but he was pressured to shut up. But you know, he was right. We stand in support of those who gave us the right Star Wars, as much if not more, than we stand against those who gave us the wrong Star Wars. It shouldn't have happened, and there were so many ways for it to have not gone this wrongly. I'd rather have a phoned in poor effort Star Wars than one which was an intentional strong effort to destroy everything Star Wars was and should have continued to be. Power madness is decadence, and Rome fell because of it. I don't have a Last Jedi DVD, and I never will. I didn't see Solo, and I won't. It's over. Star Wars is dead. RIP Star Wars.