I finally did watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi and overall hated them.
I liked two of the chases in VII, most of the space action in VIII, overdone but obviously intentionally. Oscar Isaac did pretty good aside from some of the excessive sarcasm but was underused, John Boyega did pretty good, Rose was fine, Rey mostly fine but a little too annoying in bits of VII and cliched in parts of VIII and going from not knowing of Jedi in first to being so much for and one of them in second at least awkward. Ford and Fisher were really badly cliched in VII though Fisher was much better in VIII. I just didn't like the whole whole lot of TFA being such familiar echoes of whole lot of parts of ANH.
The worst part was that either Luke's son or Han and Leia's son and Luke's ex-apprentice really shouldn't be the main bad guy or most active bad guy, that's too bleak and it was mostly skipped and still very underwhelming, particularly unbelievable for why he went bad, why he or the others were following Snoke (including who he really was, how he became strong in Dark Side and the Imperial leader), why he was so bad that, even admitting internal conflicts, he would still kill Han especially as he did and his motivations really didn't become clearer or better in VIII. Also bad or worse for Luke to have so much abandoned the galactic struggle and his former friends, still at times clearly caring about them but in actions seeming to not care at all about them, really bad for Yoda to come back after so long and give such trite obvious advice. I can't believe that Luke, by at least the end of Empire, didn't know, believe that failure can be an important teacher.
I liked two of the chases in VII, most of the space action in VIII, overdone but obviously intentionally. Oscar Isaac did pretty good aside from some of the excessive sarcasm but was underused, John Boyega did pretty good, Rose was fine, Rey mostly fine but a little too annoying in bits of VII and cliched in parts of VIII and going from not knowing of Jedi in first to being so much for and one of them in second at least awkward. Ford and Fisher were really badly cliched in VII though Fisher was much better in VIII. I just didn't like the whole whole lot of TFA being such familiar echoes of whole lot of parts of ANH.
The worst part was that either Luke's son or Han and Leia's son and Luke's ex-apprentice really shouldn't be the main bad guy or most active bad guy, that's too bleak and it was mostly skipped and still very underwhelming, particularly unbelievable for why he went bad, why he or the others were following Snoke (including who he really was, how he became strong in Dark Side and the Imperial leader), why he was so bad that, even admitting internal conflicts, he would still kill Han especially as he did and his motivations really didn't become clearer or better in VIII. Also bad or worse for Luke to have so much abandoned the galactic struggle and his former friends, still at times clearly caring about them but in actions seeming to not care at all about them, really bad for Yoda to come back after so long and give such trite obvious advice. I can't believe that Luke, by at least the end of Empire, didn't know, believe that failure can be an important teacher.
