u/Zebweasel

This isn’t a hate post. I love the sequels just as much as the other two, but I don’t think they’re perfect. I have a few problems with them just like the other two trilogies. If I ask the main subreddit, I’ll just get the same old hateful answers as usual. What I really want to know are the thoughts of people who already love these films. Here are mine:

TFA: more background lore. I think the film needed to explain more the relationship between the resistance, the republic, and the first order. I got most of it answered in the novel Bloodline, but most fans don’t read. To this day plenty of people still think the republic and first order were at war, and the resistance was the last fighting force of the republic.

TLJ: Holdo withholding the plans. I don’t care if Poe was out of line, when it gets to the point where mutiny is happening, it’s time to reveal the plan! If Leia hadn’t woken up, the plan would have been ruined. The real reason for doing this is to hide from the audience that there was a real plan and reveal Holdo wasn’t an enemy and knew what she was doing. But there are better ways of doing it. Also I think the comedy goes just a little bit overboard sometimes.

TROS: PACING! Apparently this film had 3 hours of footage that was stripped down in editing, and I can believe it. This film moves at breakneck speed. You can actually feel all the missing footage. I really hope they release a special edition of the sequels and add back in all the missing footage. Or at least release the deleted scenes to the public so fan edits can add them in.