And God bless you for that. 

Thanks, but I refuse to use sarcasm tags.

All I could think of.

Have you been to Atlanta? Because their public transit is horrible and doesn’t come close to covering the area it needs to. It was crippled by a combination of sprawl and NIMBY. 

car = I can get in and go wherever I want, whenever I want. I’m in control. I can talk to myself in peace, practicing arguments that I may have one day, or replaying things that I should have said. I can listen to whatever music I want to, or talk on my (hands free) phone without worry.

does not *directly* deprive the airline of anything

You know those brawls people get into over Black Friday deals that result in the police arresting people?

The U.S. airline industry, for some reason that some economist somewhere can probably explain, has moved to a model of providing the least it possibly can, with a seemingly infinite number of ways to charge customers for perks that used to be features of flying, leading to an overall less satisfactory customer…

Holdo and Rose are hardly mold breaking. Holdo is basically a second Leia and Rose is largely a sidekick. I’m personally rather indifferent to both of them as characters but if people dislike them it is largely a function of issues with how Rian Johnson wrote them. Now granted, there are some toxic trolls out…

A lot of the complaints about Rey have ALWAYS been that she’s passive, but whenever I mention that people attack and call me a misoginist or an incel. And of course you dismiss most criticisms of TLJ the same way. I guess it’s easier to yell “SEXIST” and plug your ears than hear things you don’t want to hear.

Every movie in this trilogy exists primarily to say “nuh uh” to the previous movie. VII was about assuring people that this wouldn’t be like the prequels, VIII was about rejecting the nostalgia of VII, and IX is about reverting as much of VIII as it could.

They do have an effect on the plot. The heroes would not have gotten off of Kijimi or saved Chewbacca if Zorii hadn’t given Poe the key to board the Star Destroyer. They also wouldn’t have had their signals jammed while destroying the Star Destroyers if Jannah hadn’t lended them her cavalry.

TFA put a female Jedi warrior at the center of a Star Wars narrative for the first time and TROS added not one but two new active female characters including the series first major African American woman. Seem like strange movies for mysoginistic hordes to champion.

We got more of a reformed Ren than we did of a Reformed Darth Vader in ROTJ.

TFA and TROTS are every bit as diverse and female as TLJ.  The notion that people dislike it because of racism and sexism is largely a strawman.

That’s one of my beefs with TLJ. There’s no story left at the end, yet you know there’s going to be another movie. TRoS was always going to have to set up its own story and wrap up the entire franchise.

While George Lucas’ whole “I have the entire saga plotted out!” schtick is a bit of self-mythologizing exaggeration, at least the original and prequel trilogies were being guided by one vision, even when Lucas was not directing.

This trilogy suffers from a lack of an overarching vision, other than... “it’s Star Wars!”…

I didn’t see the triangle at all. Poe seemed to love Rey like a sister. 0 romantic interest in each other.

So the movie is just a blatant adaptation of Dark Empire, a Legends story that also has Palpatine come back to life with his own fleet of super star destroyers. And it even has good old Sheev ripping off the bad guy from a Ghostbusters 2’s plan to transfer his consciousness into Leia’s baby.

Now that it’s done, we can look back at the sequel trilogy as a whole and see how ABSOLUTELY INSANE it was that they didn’t go into it with a fleshed-out, three-part story arc in mind—and how in fact each movie was un-subtly, even rudely in some cases, trying to undo everything that happened in its predecessor.