[CaptainCrunch]

The other thing, is that while people don't like the sequels, the story of the fall of Anakin to Vader made sense, he was caught in a war of both sides. The perceived hypocrisy of the Jedi Council, and the Jedi weren't at all what we imagined by the third movie, and the brilliant manipulations of Palpatine especially when it came to Anakin. He played off of his ego, his fear of loss, and his fear of being a slave to the Jedi Order.

In TLJ there was no fall with Ben, he was just evil at the start, and the whole story in the last Jedi, where Luke just decides for even a second that he has to die had literally no emotional impact. It would have been nice to have seen some indication of Snoke's machinations in stealing Kylo from his family and Luke. Why did the dark rise in him. Just having a buzz line, that he wanted to be his grandfather felt weak considering he would have heard stories of his Grandfathers monstrous acts of evil in killing kids, slaughtering an entire planet. Torturing Mom and Dad, all acts caused by the Dark Side.

There was little development of the why's of Ben, and because of that we were left with a sniveling anger spaz, it was a really quick fall from his cool entrance in the first movie.

TLJ was jarring and I agree with the posters above, the destruction of the big bad with no succession except Ben and his whole let everything die (which isn't bad if it was fleshed out to why he believed that needed to happen). To Fin really ending his development, to an even worse waste of the Phasma character, to Hux becoming a 2 dimensional butt of jokes. Rian really train wrecked thing, and I'm sure there was outright panic when they had to write the third movie.

It's the reason why they bought back Palpatine, (mistake because he was awful and that whole kill me thing is stupid when you put it in context with his story in the Opera House). Or the reason why they had a shot with 10,000 old school star destroyers. It was pure fan service, and in the end made the summary episode of the trilogy seem more like a badly written comic.