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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I literally do not know what I saw tonight. The Clone Wars and Rebels episodes are more "Star Wars" than the nonsense I sat through for 2 hours and 33 minutes tonight.

And unfortunately, I'm seeing it again on Saturday.



Besides the fact that it also heavily drew upon the OT, they way it was edited was baffling.

Spoiler!

Snoke's murder near the middle of the film instead of at the end?The battle on Crait, which parallel the Hoth battle, as part of the final sequence? Luke's exit into The Force (which was completely unnecessary, IMO) at the end, all alone? It's like RJ just shuffled the deck of Star Wars highlights.

Even my 9 year old said "I thought the movie was over but nope. Then I thought the movie was over but nope. And then I thought the movie was over and it was finally over! It felt like 4 hours!".

I'm absolutely baffled as to why they gave him keys to a full trilogy.

And at the end of the day, where does Episode IX take us? This felt like the end of Star Wars to me.

Episode IX is going to feel like some unnecessary epilogue.

My son made the same observation about the whole film feeling more like Episode 9 than Episode 8. Snoke was the best thing about the movie and he's only in a couple of scenes.

I don't know how Disney manufactured all the great love for Rian or the 93% on RottenTomatoes but wholly crap that was prequel-level bad...