The new trilogy isn’t that. It presented Rey as a mystery that can and should be speculated about, the same for Snoke, the same for the New Order in general, the same for the Skywalker treasure map, the same, really, for the general political makeup of the galaxy. There was always going to be fan expectation, but the…

So I have to say thank you for this.

“The events of TLJ (which I love, despite also growing up with Luke, Han, and Leia) don’t detract from the other movies.”

This is why you set your expectations low so you can be pleasantly surprised (especially for this trilogy). Just be like the rest of us and assume the climax of the movie will consist of Rey summoning a giant Luke Skywalker, who will rise from the ground and take a bite out of Kylo Palpatine’s (oh they merge like a…

The other problem is you have to compare their work to Rian Johnson’s work who hits it out of the park every time.

See my problem isn’t that it’s just the last season, season 5 to now has been a huge drop in quality. Martin gave them the outline but they very clearly weren’t sure how to tell the story even with the plot points laid out for them. I try to be an optimist but Benioff’s writing credits also include Wolverine Origins…

Benioff & Weiss’s career to date has been mostly spend adapting other people’s stories to screen. Benioff’s sole completely original credit was his first novel, The 25th Hour, which he lucked out in getting adapted as a movie by Spike Lee. Since then almost everything he’s done has been based on other work. Weiss’s…

The last 2 seasons, they’ve been operating without GRRM’s material, and have completely dropped the ball. They are failing to explain motivations (why did Dany lose it and burn the city? The “seeing the red keep” excuse from after the thrones didn’t explain her rage well enough at all), constantly changing the rules…