I watched the Rise of Skywalker for the second time last night, too
There's so much wrong with it it just boggles the mind how anyone working on it thought "yeah, this is a fitting end to the forty year franchise"
Death Star weapons on Star Destroyers 
strawberry floating Beaumont Kin
The Wayfinder
"Lightspeed skipping"
Every single
fakeout death The scene on Passanna is genuinely like an "oh damn did they really" and then not five minutes later
it's "oh no they didn't"I really really hate how JJ and the cast were like "oh yeah it's great to get the trio on screen for the first time the gang is together" and they spend almost all of the time they're together falling out. The first real interaction you get between Poe and Rey is them butting heads. Poe spends the whole film
bitching that Finn has secret things to tell Rey (which, staggeringly, he never does! How was that not picked up before they released it?)God. I'd love to know who was actually responsible for strawberry floating it up so badly. Trying to fit in so much Leia after she'd died was never going to go well, but there's so much more wrong with it.
It got me wondering if you could do what that guy did with the Hobbit films and recut it to get something decent out of it. Take the three totally disconnected films and edit it down into maybe two films that actually told a story. But then watching Skywalker, there's so much that has no payoff whatsoever. Finn's Stormtrooper uprising ends up being
some strawberry floating stupid ground-assault-on-a-star-destroyer bullshit? The only time he shows he's force sensitive is when Rey dies (and then doesn't?) Like they were obviously going for an Endgame with the hideous "I am all the sith" nonsense, but a throwback to the Force Awakens forest fight ripping off Endgame's Mjolnir moment with Finn taking the saber and actually holding his own would have been loads more interesting (and would have actually had some semblance of character development lol).But how would you structure the film? I sort of thought you could have like a Snoke-villain film (obvs finishing with the TLJ Rey/Kylo fight), and then a Palpatine-villain film so it seems a little less shoehorned in. But I'd probably cut *all* of the Exegol star destroyer battle out. Just straight up bullshit. (maybe even just have the final space battle being Starkiller base rather than THE FINAL ORDER). It's kinda something I want to have a go at, but I'm awful at video editing
and it probably wouldn't make the blindest bit of sense.
And I still don't understand why
Palpatine had some enormous arena built so all his little indoctrinated nobodies could watch Rey kill him. Who thought that made sense?
Also why was there no
force ghost kylo at the end?
