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TLJ was awful mostly because it takes everything that was in TFA, curls it up in a ball and throws it away. Then it proceeds to make a Star Wars movie out of a slow-moving car chase, while our Mary Sue-ish protagonist is off on her own doing things that neither help nor hurt her case, but are definitely not progressing her story. It takes the entirety of the rebellion and reduces it to "these people on three ships," which seems statistically implausible and makes us wonder just what the hell happened between the OT and ep 7 to wind up here. It was unsatisfying in almost every meaningful way, took existing characters in unexpected directions simply for the sake of being unexpected and reductive (Hux, Phasma, OT characters), and contains Adam Driver.

It also leaves episode 9 in an absolute no-win situation where there was nowhere to go, so of course episode 9 was going to be awful because WTF did they have to work with? Honestly, the fact that RoS wasn't an even bigger dumpster fire is a freaking miracle.