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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Depends.
A lot of this big complaints revolve around the handling of Snoke's death/history, & Rey's parentage not being revealed.
IMO those will actually be less impactful complaints on second viewing. The reason it's so jarring upon the first watch is because people hyped up these huge reveals in their head for 2 years and when nothing happened it was an immediate disappointment. ...
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Big time. I went to the double feature, and after seeing Force Awakens again I was reminded how that movie didn't put as much effort into creating that mystery as the fans did. The character obviously wants to know who her parents are, but beyond that there's no real foreshadowing that anything huge is coming. If anything the other characters (like Maz) try to downplay it.
My take on it was I was concerned through the first half (just wasn't feeling it), but I adored the last half. I was most excited for the Rey/Luke angle, but in the end that section seemed to really drag for me. Once Rey met Snoke I was all in though. Overall a damn fine movie imo. A bit weaker than the others, but nowhere near episodes 1-3.
I definitely agree that having Yoda with the attitude from 5 and 6 rather than the prequels was a big hit. I didn't even realize how much I missed him as a source of humour. That was my unexpected highlight.