Has it come to this?

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2019)

If the movie held up in its own right, then I could almost forgive the character assassination of my childhood cinematic hero, Luke Skywalker.
But it really doesn't. The narrative hangs loosely, with little to no development or resolution to anything that has gone before. This feels like a movie made by someone who either never watched Star Wars before, or hated what they saw and wished to remake it in their own image.
Not only a squandered opportunity. It also has this weird effect of changing my perception of the movies that precede it. It makes the efforts of the Rebels in the OT seem pointless. It makes TFA seem worse than it was, by offering no payoff from the many loose ends Abrams' effort left. But it simultaneously improves the much-maligned prequel trilogy by comparison.
The prequels got a fair bit wrong, but at least they felt part of the same universe.
As a kid, I yearned for the continuation of the Skywalker saga. Now I wish I could erase the Disney era from memory. If only I were a droid...