I feel you on the letting go. TRoS definitely made care a huge amount less about Star Wars, where TFA and TLJ had made me care about it quite a bit more.

The prequels weren't good, the first two sequels were good. That's why I hate Rise even more. Because it was so terrible people just lump the other two in with it.

100% agree with you about Solo.

It was absolutely terrible and I haven’t felt the need to ever watch it again.

It was the laziest Star Wars movie ever. It feels like they focus grouped a bunch of “fans” that hated TLJ and asked them what THEY wanted to see, then threw all of it in the film regardless of how many plot holes it created and if it made any sense.

What a great, great take. Awesome. Thank you for articulating that. I tried but got very sweary

Honestly, it feels The Rise of Skywalker gave me some semblance of peace. Not because I liked it, of course, I hated it, but because it broke me out having to care about Star Wars and its fans.

TRoS was a giant missed opportunity. TLJ set up a mechanism to greatly expand the Star Wars universe. Star Wars did not have to be limited to Sith (Bad Ass + Big Bad In Background), Jedi (consumed by Skywalker squabling with wasted Obi Wan potential) and various cool but underdeveloped characters (Fett, Chewbacca,…

I haven’t rewatched it. I’ve tried to think about it as little as possible. Something it took me way too long to realize is that life is too short to spend it dwelling on things you don’t enjoy. I have a friend who posts about TLJ (or something he relates to problems he had with it) every damn day. Whether I loved TLJ…

My wishful thinking when I originally heard the rumor about Rey being a Skywalker is that the movie was going to make gray force users (who sit between light and dark) be “Skywalker”-s. Just as kind of an honorific of those who came before and paved the way. And thus Rey mastered the ability of both light and dark and…

I didn’t watch it in theaters and was content to wait until it was on Disney+. Even then, I took my time. Star Wars isn’t necessarily my thing.

So well said. It’s a shame that TLJ backlash by the worst parts of the internet scared Disney/Lucasfilms away from the original plan. Who knows if it would have been good? But at least it could have been interesting, at worst. 

I think Solo also suffers from some of this, to a lesser extent, tbh.

I just got done ranting to a coworker about the awful job Halo does at connecting their stories and everything interesting happening between games so what’s bitching another few hundred words about another piece of media that the writers had no idea what to do with.

My take on RoS remains that it is is the only Star Wars movie that truly doesn’t deserve to exist.

The best thing that can be said about the Sequels is that they make the Prequels look better by comparison. While the Prequels were pretty sterile, flat and often cringe-inducing, at least Lucas made the effort to have the characters and stories develop over the course of three films instead of each succeeding film…

It also kind of retroactively ruined all of the sequel trilogy for me. I have no desire to watch them now either. Or spend any more time with the first order or the resistance.

Frankly, any SW media that runs up to that era and then past should just skip over it with an interstitial that says: “And then some stuff…

I hate it so much. I don’t think I’ll ever watch it again. Which I can’t say for any other Star Wars film.

But what this means in the world of the movie is that Leia refused to give Chewbacca his medal until after she died. Like, she know the Wookiee deserved it, but she couldn’t bear the idea of giving it to him herself, so she carried it around with begrudging instructions that Chewbacca could only be given his medal…

I tried rewatching it recently - couldn’t make it more than 15, 20 minutes into the movie - and I’m a middle-aged fan of the original trilogy.