I thought they explained that Palpatine built the fleet via the force? I assumed they just sort of materialized when they rose from the water. Also, Kylo had already been to Exegol once and knew the coordinates, the place just isn’t mapped. 

“How does Ben get a classic TIE from the Endor moon to Exegol without a wayfinder or, more importantly, a damn hyperdrive?”

The First Order never made a lick of sense to me. They aren’t ruling anything. They don’t seem to have any plan to rule anything. They just build armies and giant weapons. Their entire point is to be antagonistic for no reason. You imagine if they actually killed all the Skywalkers, Hux and Ren would look around like,…

Consistent screenwriters + story writers (as seen in the OT) is more important than consistent directors.

Right.

What would a Star Wars fan know about good writing? They've clearly never been exposed to it.

critics have to watch every movie assigned to them, so they tend to embrace movies that buck their expectations and rate them higher just because at least what they are doing is novel and interesting. its not shocking then that TLJ got a lot of credit from critics for doing exactly that (even if in very superficial…

I mean, for Luke it’s probably his first kiss and he’s not used to dealing with beautiful women like that. But the context in the scene itself makes it pretty clear Leia only did it because Han was being a jackass and pissing her off.

You say that like Leia had a lady boner for Luke, when she only kissed him to piss off Han for being an asshole. 

What movies were you watching that Luke and Leia kissed multiple times? The only time they kissed was when Leia gave Luke a kiss to piss off Han. At no point in the original trilogy do Luke and Leia get any ship tease, it’s all Han and Leia as soon as they meet.

To everyone claiming previous Star Wars had notoriously bad writing: Writing and dialogue aren’t the same thing. Star Wars is full of terrible dialogue and corny exposition (maybe purposely so), but good writing includes plot, structure, themes, characters and world building and I’d say the original trilogy is good in…

I’ve rewatched the scene where Padme tells Anakin that she’s pregnant and my most shocking revelation there was Christensen, because he’s... not bad. He sells the longing and thirstiness well when he wants to kiss her and then a range of emotion, from fear to elation, when she tells him the news. And yet the scene is…

Glaring and awkward -- the J.J. Abrams touch!

Honestly, the creative and cultural tug-of-war over this trilogy is already the most memorable thing about it.

But that’s the thing—I disagree with your original premise. Sure, Luke whined, but he was young. But he had hopes and dreams, he had passion. We saw him channel his growth into becoming a Jedi, making errors along the way, still being impetuous, until he matured into the one who brought balance to the Force (by…

Dont worry.  The fans have been waiting to hate it for months.  The fact the critics also don't like it is just validation. 

I mean, George Lucas already made another trilogy, which wasn’t even bad weird, but just... bad and boring.

“I remember young Luke Skywalker being extremely whiny...”

I don’t believe any of these critics genuinely loved TLJ. They just giddily seized an opening for them to assume a contrarian, quasi-intellectual position in opposition to what they perceived as the horde of sweaty fanboys who didn’t like that movie.

Good writing? Like this?