Counterpoint: It’s not.

The reason the show works and the sequel trilogy doesn’t is simple:

but his demeanor isn’t that of a frothing bigot.

Pom! 

I think you’re imagining if TLJ ended with Kylo reaching his hand out to Rey, which really would’ve been a much better movie, rather than it ending with 14 rebels escaping the clutches of the Empire. Kylo established himself as the big bad (murdered his dad, tried to murder all of Reys friends) and Rey is simply on…

Well, TLJ contradicts a lot, including all of the Mystery Box stuff. Though it doesn’t necessarily retcon it, it shrugs it all off with one-liners. Which in it of itself is fine, but y’know, there has to be something to replace it with. It can’t just be 2 hours and 30 minutes of “nope.”

Unless those writers are Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci.

If you saw it, you’d have been Rob Patt.

You could even make a Star Wars Starship Stormtroopers! Full on fascism!

Part of what people don’t consider is how damaging TLJ was to the potential of a good trilogy.

Perf. Give me a trilogy, Disney! It’ll be three slightly serialized disaster movies AND will satisfy the science geeks!

Would’ve been really funny if in ep7 JJ invented Star Wars TV and space news and had a Maz Cantina patron shout for everyone to shut up and turn up the volume and you see a reporter on the scene at Coruscant saying into a mic that they were witnessing a bright red light before screaming and cutting to static and back…

Counterpoint: this is Star Wars, not Star Trek.

Jack & Jill is complete garbage, but, people also like paychecks.

That’s silly.

Most of us hate the prequels because of the writing.

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

*unclicks belt*

Would’ve been awkward if Adam Driver accidentally got sliced by Luke and was like, o ok guess we’ll get back to blasting the door.

Boo. TLJ wasn’t brilliant. But yes it could really have been used to set up something a lot more daring.