Again reminded that Rise of Skywalker was not so much a BAD film as a completely baffling one. They got everything superficial 100% right about Star Wars and nothing more substantive. It’s (almost) like a SW movie made for or possibly by 10 year old me. How do you even have ANY Death Star ruins intact to climb around? Who cares, dungeon crawl! Does it make sense that old Sheve P’s back? No but extensible robot arm in a Sith temple looks awesome!
WHY does the First Order use not just speeders but also rocket pack dudes who launch off them other than it looks badass? Lando’s at Burning Man and saves the day with people who didn’t show up last movie? AWESOME. How about dodging stormtrooper occupation forces on a dangerous mission to access Threepio’s memory? Let’s do it.
I’m gonna suggest that the events of all the sequels (but especially Ep IX) didn’t work great as movies but would have been a profoundly enjoyable TTRPG campaign, something the players would tell stories about for years.
