thats it. They're still so seething about how it 'destroyed the canon' or whatever. Its got to be some of the most weird form of movie brain worms that they just hated that movie instead of Revenge of Skywalker or whatever it was called, which was one of the worst movies of all time.
I found TLJ's snarky gotcha games tiresome and it made it a chore for me to even consider watching again, but yes, Rise of Skywalker was worse, in large part because it was trying in a hacky way to reverse everything done in TLJ instead of having the courage to commit to the changes made.
I always hear that, but like there wasn't much left to build on imo. Same is true of TFA too, imo, so I wouldn't blame Johnson completely.
I thought TFA was an uninspired reboot that just took beats from A New Hope and put new labels on them. That isn't Tatooine, it's Jakuu. That wasn't Coruscant that just blew up (though Abrams wanted to break that toy too, but was stopped), that was Hosnian Prime. Those aren't Sith, they are "Knights of Ren," and so on.
Worse, it unraveled the new Jedi Order and for that matter the New Republic within single scenes because Abrams is a hack and wanted his reboot that rebooted.
Any defense of TLJ that uses TFA won't sway me much. :edgeworth-shrug:
Yeah I mean I think all the sequels/prequels are shit, but I'm probably not the target audience