Nazanir

Until the sequel trilogy was released, Episode 2 Attack of the Clones to me was by far the worst Star Wars movie. It was just absolute cringe at times and just hard to watch.

But holy shit did they drop the ball hard on the sequel trilogy. The Force Awakens was okay, nothing memorably good nor bad. But like lots of people said before me: the lack of coherency is painfully there.

Simple example: Finn vs Phasma. This could have been a fantastic arc over the span of the three movies. Part 7, he breaks free, but when confronted she proves his superior. In part 8 Finn has had training and in the next encounter he could now fight Phasma to a standstill. Finally in part 9 the culmination of Finn's training and Phasma's arrogance he finally gets the best of her and beats her.

And that is just one small example of how much better the sequel trilogy could have been. Ultimately nothing that happens in part 8 as part of the plot mattered. Because there never was a pay-off. Need the only hacker in the known universe to skiller enough help them, he dies. Oh here is another ultimate hacker. There is not a single lightsabre clash in part 8 either, and during the throne room fight, on of the red troopers actually has a killshot on Rey if he would just follow through with his attack, but he dileberately whiffs it by suddenly swinging way too high. And there are a lot of examples like that. Snoke was utlimately a pointless character.

Part 9 also suffers from no pay offs, but also no build up. At no point in any of the three movies was it even speculated that Palpatine may have been pulling strings after his demise, let alone that he was plotting his return. Rey adopting the name of Skywalker was complete bullshit. First of all, that is not how it works. Secondly, it would have been a much more powerful ending if she choose to keep the Palpatine name, proving that a name does not determine who you are. She could have shown the universe Palpatine can also be a force of good.

And of course Rey being a massive Marry Sue.