Once the dust settled from watching it...all I could remember was its catastrophic flaws

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2017)

No doubt you've read a lot of the reviews on here, and how fans loathe this film with a passion. So I'll skip to the plot points that make this the most perverse anti-Star Wars, Star Wars film ever.

Luke Skywalker. This guy is not the Luke we know and love. He wants the Jedi to end, is fearful, and has lost all hope. I could have run with this if he had not just been killed off at the end. I was like WTF. Luke decides to just disappear into the Force. We have been totally cheated.

He gets some of his mojo back towards the end and when an epic battle is teased, we find out that he has projected his consciousness from another planet and Kylo Ren can't kill him. What a let down.

Snoke. So in TFA, Snoke is teased as this mysterious figure. And for two years fans have asked the following questions. Where is he from? Is he a creature from a distant galaxy? wOr is he related to Anakin or Palpatine? Is he Darth Plagueis? All valid questions which could have added richness to this new story. But instead this all goes no where. This apparently most powerful Dark Force user is easily dispatched by Kylo Ren -and he didn't even see it coming! WTF???

So with Luke and Snoke dead we are not going to get an epic showdown between arguably the most powerful Light and Dark force users ever. Wasted opportunity.

-This leaves Rey's parentage. Is she a Skywalker? Is she a Kenobi? Is she a Palpatine? Or is she a reincarnation of Darth Vader? Nope she is none of these. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Nobody who left her on Jakku.
So none of these important plot points established in TFA seems to have been important enough by Rian Johnson and co to explore in TLJ. In fact, it seems that Johnson has been reactionary to fans expectations. He wanted to create the unexpected by simply eliminating all these plot points in fear of TLJ being predictable. Bad form I say.
Hopefully Episode 9 will kick off with Luke waking from a nightmare and it was all just a bad dream. I wish I could joke about this, but Luke Skywalker is a beloved character and he, Mark Hamill, and the fans were very much short changed with this movie
I have to admit that the spectacle of it all won me over for a few hours after seeing it. But once the dust settled the rot set in.