[CaptainCrunch]

Fair enough.



My problem wasn't really as much of anything is that the story was jarring and out of sync.



One thing that I actually liked, is that Kylo and Snoke in the first two movies weren't Sith, they didn't name themselves Sith. One of the things that I pointed out before TFA was that when Vader killed Palpatine and died that the Sith linage and all of that knowledge was dead. They were merely dark side users. I didn't mind that at all. It did get around killing the end of the OT, Vader had lived up to at least part of the prophesy at that point. Remember what Obi said.


It was prophesized that you would destroy the Sith not join them, and that you wouldn't leave the Force in darkness. So going off of that I could live with the dark side rise. Even Snoke touched on it. The dark rises and the light rises to meet it. We're still talking some modicum of balance.


While I love Palpatine, I frankly hated the idea of bringing him back, it was jarring because it made no sense to me and seemed like nothing more then fan service and a frantic repair effort on killing off Snoke, and a attempt to pad ticket sales.



One of the big complaints with the PT was in the PM having Anakin as this young cute innocent kid. Would the story have been serviced with Anakin being older, more shades of grey? I think it could have.


In the ST, this one, could they have started this whole thing without any real hint of force users at the very start? I think it would have had a really cool possibility if we didn't even have Kylo showing up til the very end of the movie, and just have the first order in the first movie as the key enemy through the use of armies and technology.


I always thought that Luke being willing to go to the Island of woe in self banishment leaving the galaxy in the hands of two powerful dark side users was just a poor choice. I mean they could have really played up a split between Leia and Solo and Luke in a really simple manner. Have everyone believe that Ben had fallen and rose as Kylo Ren and everyone including Luke believing that Luke had killed him. Now you have a great reason for Luke in self banishment on the Island wanting to let the Jedi die and Leia and Han not really wanting to talk to him. Then at the end of the movie you can reveal Kylo Ren as one of the movers and shakers behind the First Order. Then you can introduce Snoke in the second movie still kill Luke off and have the confrontation of Rey against Ben and Snoke in the third with the question of redemption for Ren, and do something different and not have Ren as redeemable.



But now I'm just meandering. I didn't mind the ST, I didn't think it was a great trilogy though story wise or conclusion wise for a 42 year old story.


But I'm not militantly hating on it.