Honestly, the thing that made me the maddest about the Sequels was how they treated Kylo and Poe.

Yes, in the first movie, Kylo was an emotional brat who got beat by Rey the first time they fought. But because I was naïve still at the time and thought they knew what they were doing, I thought it was being set up that that was the point. And come Episode 8 they would have him getting dressed down by Snoke for his failure, have him bring up how he claims to be the heir of Vader and yet lost to a novice, and then have him start undergoing Dark Side training to be made into a threat the next time he faced Rey. Not only did that not happen, they kept nerfing him to appeal to the Shippers.

And Poe made what was objectively the correct call as a military commander, was abused by his commanding officer, and the movie treats it like he is the bad guy here. I spent the entire god damn movie utterly convinced "Hyperspace Tracking" was a myth and that Holdo was a traitor because she was doing everything you would expect a traitor to do. And I was gobsmacked when it turn out she was wrong and the movie was making it out like Poe was a brainlet for thinking what any reasonable human and soldier would think with an officer liker her.

Have I mentioned that Ep. 8 holds the unique "honor" of being the only movie that has ever retroactively ruined my enjoyment of another movie? Because at the time I actually really liked Ep. 7 and wrote off all of its issues as "They are just getting back in the game. Ep. 8 will fix some of this funk." Meanwhile....

Honestly, the thing that made me the maddest about the Sequels was how they treated Kylo and Poe.

Yes, in the first movie, Kylo was an emotional brat who got beat by Rey the first time they though. But because I was naïve still at the time and thought they knew what they were doing, I thought it was being set up that that was the point. And come Episode 8 they would have him getting dressed down by Snoke for his failure, have him bring up how he claims to be the heir of Vader and yet lost to a novice, and then have him start undergoing Dark Side training to be made into a threat the next time he faced Rey. Not only did that not happen, they kept nerfing him to appeal to the Shippers.

And Poe made what was objectively the correct call as a military commander, was abused by his commanding officer, and the movie treats it like he is the bad guy here. I spent the entire god damn movie utterly convinced "Hyperspace Tracking" was a myth and that Holdo was a traitor because she was doing everything you would expect a traitor to do. And I was gobsmacked when it turn out she was wrong and the movie was making it out like Poe was a brainlet for thinking what any reasonable human and soldier would think with an officer liker her.

Have I mentioned that Ep. 8 holds the unique "honor" of being the only movie that has ever retroactively ruined my enjoyment of another movie? Because at the time I actually really liked Ep. 7 and wrote off all of its issues as "They are just getting back in the game. Ep. 8 will fix some of this funk." Meanwhile....