Best move forward

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2019)

I'm so frustrated with tros I had to write this review. I love TLJ and I know a lot of people do. But we are not the loudest voice and I don't even believe that is the majority. The majority enjoyed this movie without wanting everything old back or having our own agenda based on childhood and childish memories of how things were and should stay the same.
JJ set up Luke hiding on that island due to his failure in TFA so what was RJ suppose to do with that? Did Luke go to the island to be happy and perky and positive and continue to act like his 30 yo self? No! RJ took the premise of the previous movie and logically built on it. This is the most fleshed out version of Luke ever. People go through trauma and mid life crisises that change them. That is life. I mean look at Mark Hamill now compared to MH from the 80s. He's not the same! But at the end of the day Luke still came back and saved the day. Luke will inevitably die someday. He ain't young. Do you prefer he die of old age doing nothing? Or go out with a bang using the force? I loved his death scene. It was powerful and moving and purposeful. That complaint about his death is so childish. I mean he's done it all already let him go! It's not his turn anymore.
TLJ did nothing that a talented writer could not have taken further. (I do think JJ is talented)
For example RJ gave us such a good set up for the next movie's use of Knights of Ren. He even said he purposedly did not use them in the throne room so that they can be used later. Luke says to Rey that Ben took some of the trainees from the academy and disappeared. There were total of 12 other kids Luke trained so it makes sense the KoR are the other kids Ben fled with. So without Snoke how do you not take that opportunity to use the Knights of Ren as former Jedi trainees and build on that? Develop them and make one of them Kylo's new apprentice/ right hand man. This can be one of the things he "finishes" since vadar was alway apprentice to Palpatine. But instead he reverts him back to apprentice to Palpatine in 9 is so lazy. New Ren could of somehow gained Snokes darkside powers when he died making him a strong adversary to Kylo and Kylo can still be redeemed since he's still not actually the darkest bad. New Ren can find out Kylo killed snoke and have a sinister back plan to bring Palpatines spirit back and move darkside forward if you still want Palpatine in a logical way. Or anything else! I don't care just make it follow the previous movie. Just saying there were possibilities to move forward with TLJ's set up. So people who complain that TLJ put JJ in the corner have no imagination or logic.
And why reverse the message that the force is for everyone? oh no it's just for the priviledged. You gotta be born royal?