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Originally Posted by octothorp
It amazes me that Star Wars writers continue to feel like they need some massive, overarching threat (destroy X before the empire uses it to destroy Y). ESB seems to be universally agreed upon as the best of the franchise, and yet it's the only non-prequel one that doesn't have an overarching threat. There was a lot I liked in the details but I wasn't fond of the slow race through space as a central anchor for the plot; it didn't really make logical sense, and it's hard to overlook since it's so central.
I've also been asking since I was a teenager why nobody in the Star Wars universe ever weaponizes hyperspace (ie. attaching hyperspace drives to a big chunk of matter, pointing it at a target, and pressing go). It was a big 'told you so' moment for me that hyperspace can, in fact, be used that way, although also emphasizes how silly it is that up to this point, neither this ruthless empire or desperate rebel alliance has done so.
I'm okay with Snoke being just this unexplained figure who it turns out is just kinda a second-rate Sith, and I did like Rey's parents being explained as nobodies (at least for now, I could also see a possibility that Kylo was lying). There were a lot of little details that I liked, particularly between Luke/Rey/Kylo. The humor was good (I loved Chewbacca and the little furry owls). The Casino planet felt a little 'prequelish' IMO, but I liked Rose and Finn's presence together.
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I would have been find with the Snoke thing, had they actually revealed him to be second rate. However, his actual powers were way beyond any previous force users. He also stated that he'd been around for a long time. Had it been more of a Wizard of Oz type scenario, where Snoke was a just a fraudster manipulating Kylo Ren, that would have worked. Instead, it felt like 2 separate stories. In TFA Snoke is made out to be some huge power. That's confirmed at the begging of TLJ. Then Snoke is executed without explaining how he was so powerful. By inserting Snoke in with those powers, they fundamentally changed the laws of the universe.