Quote Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe View Post
To me what I didn't like about it was it was slow in spots that didn't really need to be slow and then fast in spots that I wanted to last longer. I get that they used the casino planet to show who is really profiting from the ongoing war and they sell to both sides. It just seemed to drag on to me. I found myself getting bored and zoning out.

Building Snoke up to be the big bad only to kill him with basically a sneak attack (which was probably the only way to kill him) and have no description of who or what he was. Kylo could have given her a brief synopsis in the elevator or something.

Rey going into the Dark side hole only to just see her reflection stretched out when she was looking for her parents. Maybe I missed something but it made no sense to me. Yoda being able to call down lightning, so can force ghosts interact now? I understand just completely overlooking the midicholrian dumb plot point but basically saying Rey's parents were just nobodies, why did the Skywalker lightsaber speak to her? If it was just because she was force sensitive, why wouldn't someone else have found it in the 20 years it was in the basement. If little kid with a broom can already do things then why wouldn't one of the thousands of people that go through that bar have had the same reaction as Rey? Surely someone else would have been force sensitive in that amount of time.

It just seems like Rian basically just took the notes that JJ had made for this sequel and threw them in the trash. The humor a lot of times felt forced and took away from the mood also. It seemed like they tried to make a Marvel movie with Star Wars characters.

Also with Holdo's sacrifice, it was just plain dumb. You have all these idealist fighters that are willing to die for the cause, why would someone else not take control of the ship. Holdo is supposedly a badass tactician, would the resistance not benefit a lot more from her to continue on and let the janitor continue to pilot the ship?

Along with Snoke, they also kill off Phasma I guess as a nod to the shitty way Boba Fhett was killed. Finn was a damn janitor, he wouldn't be able to stand toe to toe with one of the First Order's best fighters.
Rey in the dark side hole is to show how she is not afraid of the dark side of the force, but she still rejects it. Unlike Luke who fears the dark side. Rey demonstrates the dark side has no power over her.

The fact she is a nobody ( just like Vader was) shows the force is for everyone. She is "special" in that the force has balance. Ren is a super strong dark side character, the force made Rey a super strong light side character to balance. That's why Luke had to die. Snoke was killed, so to balance the force, Luke had to die. Or maybe the others were not listening. Or maybe it's just survivorship bias.

I understand the casino plotline was a dead end, and some of the revelations could have come from dialog only, but I think the point was to introduce the stable kids so that the broom boy at the end was a less "random" force user.

Why no one thought, on either side, that a Kamikaze attack was a god tactical move to allow the rebel ships to get away, or for that matter to shield them with the cruiser, I have no idea.

They should have left Phasma dead from the last movie.