Everyone has their own tastes and likes.
Truer words were never spoken: De gustibus non est disputandum.
Star Wars fans are a diverse group and I think it depends on exactly when you entered the saga. I stood in line for 3 hours to see IV New Hope and was blown away. Initially I was very happy that Disney bought Lucas out Star Wars but then the more I thought about it the more I worried about what a HUGELY PC company like Dizzy was going to do (Lucas original inspiration was that the Rebels were the VC and the Empire was the USA) to Star Wars and these last two have born that out in spades. Have you noticed, by chance, that ALL the strong characters who lead are female and all the evil characters are white males? Did you notice that the new leads are a young white women, a black man, an Asian woman, and a Latino. Oh yea, again the baddies are all white males. Glorious PC-dom here we comith.
I think that if you entered the saga as I did you developed the story in your own mind. Lucas himself stated that he envisioned a trilogy of trilogies wherein I -III were the beginnings and establishment of a Galactic Republic and its degeneration into an Empire. IV - VI were the growing Rebellion, defeat of the Empire and re-establishment of the Rebublic. VII - IX were the degeneration of that new Republic, i.e. Cyclic history.
The Force Awakens was IMHO a joke, a total rehash of IV just with new characters like Rey (lives on a desert planet, collects junk, Force adept witn zero training, dreams of seas and oceans never having seen any, speaks fluent Wookie never having seen one, ect.) So I had hopes for the Last Jedi chapter breaking new ground. And boy did it shatter that ground.
SPOILERS AHEAD.......
Where to start.... Rey - one of the big build-ups in Force was Rey's parents...WHO were they and why did they abandon her. After all the build-up and speculation and dragging out .... Nobodies WTF???
Snoke - introduced as THE most powerful and MOST Evil character. No mention of who he is or where he comes from. My thought was that he is/was Mace Windu who survived his fall and had come to hate the Skywalkers or also I thought he was Palpatine who also survived his fall (did any of you think it was ridiculous that Masters of the Force like Mace and Palpatine would just fall to their deaths and could not summon enough Force to arrest their falls???) Any way this Most Powerful and Most Evil Force Adept gets simply cut in half by an unwatched light saber and is gone...WTF???
Knights of Ren - remember the big build-up...where is they????
Luke Skywalker - what a sad dismal treatment of the hero of 5 previous movies. Even Mark Hamill rebelled at the writers treatment of his character and insisted on re-writes. The Jedi decorated hero of the rebellion abandons all his friends and twin sister, exiles himself on Ahch-to, plunders his X-wing for parts, survives in an old Jedi temple by "MILKING" ugh Alien "Birds" of green milk UGH!! and spearing giant "fish". Remember the big build-up about Luke's Light-Sabre. It "called" to Rey, was somehow in the possession of Maz Kanata, and when Rey returns it to Luke he tossed it away like garbage....WTF??? Luke refuses to train Rey though she wanders into that silly cave of mirrors where she only sees reflections of herself (shades of Luke on Dagobah). Then in the big turn around Luke suddenly appears millions of LY's across the galaxy to Crait (anyone else develop a longing for Red Velvet Cake?), calls out Kylo, but Kylo seems to cut Luke in half when Luke disappears and is back on Ahch-to where he vanishes into a pile of robes (a fate reserved for a select few like Yoda, and Obi-Wan. Anakin and Qui Gonn had to be cremated. Apparently the Force allows you to project yourself across the galaxy (when did that happen??? WTF) AND now Force ghosts can actively take physical form and interact with the living and zap trees on fire. When did THAT happen...WTF
Stormtroopers have always been a joke and couldn't hit the broadside of a barn but NOW the ultimate....The ENTIRE First Order Fleet of hundreds of front line spaceships cannot catch or track ONE old freighter and they have to wait until IT RUNS OUT OF GAS!!! WTF & WTF.
With Fisher dead Leia had to be written out but that silly Mary-Popins spacewalk and then half the movie in a coma. Rey has to tell Leia that Luke is gone but Leia still survives. She can't be in the next film so...WTF Whose the next leader?? the Hothead Poe???
Then there's DJ (well they are remaking Roseanne) who is this new Gomer? Anyone notice he cares ONLY about money and sells out Finn and Rey then vanishes in his spaceship filled with Credits ( think his ship might be the Annual Bird of Prey and he has a big Sheepdog as a Pal).
Former SW Fan