Brian Heydt

What a bunch of whiny complaining a-holes most of these reviewers are. This movie was a lot of fun and rightfully course corrects Rian Johnson's abomination of a movie. I'm not sure why so many reviewers claimed the first act was slow. It was anything but. As for the movie overall, sure, not everything received an answer...yet, but what was answered was satisfying and there were some genuine surprises. Rey's lineage made perfect sense. Everything from her innate force abilities, to her saber fighting style, to the fact she went right for the darkness on Ach-To pointed to her being a Palpatine all along. The mirror image of Rey and Kylo was fantastic. He was the dark grandchild of a (eventual) light side user (Anakin). She was the light grandchild of a dark side user. Lucas said himself, these things are supposed to "rhyme" thematically. That's why JJ's movies (7 & 9) were far better than 8. 7 rhymed with 4 and 1. 9 rhymed with 6 and 3. 8 remains this outlier that failed to mesh with the rhyming 5 and 2.

What am I missing here? While everyone else gushes over this movie, I was underwhelmed and, dare I say, bored by it. The movie was far too serious with too few laughs. I loved the first 3 movies, but I hated this one. Forky is so annoying.

Everybody is talking about how amazing this show looks (and it does), but why is nobody talking about the major plot hole 30 seconds into the 1st episode? The movie clearly established that the Skeksis and the Mystics appeared after the crystal was fragmented. They were 2 symbiotic halves of 1 being. Inexplicably, the show states that the Skeksis were keepers of the crystal even before it fragmented. I am finding this hige plot hole to be so distracting that it has tainted my enjoyment of the show and I'm not sure I want to even watch any more than the 2 episodes I've already watched.