Honest, I don’t know how you could argue otherwise. It’s a multi-billion dollar amateur hour nightmare. I should be clear right off the bat that I’m not saying you can’t like the films. There are a lot of little things in the films to like, there are some aspects of the productions that are quite nice. These do not make them good films. So, enjoy, love them, hug them, take them to bed, but don’t try and tell me that they’re masterpieces, works of genius, socially important, etc., because they’re not. As a trilogy, as films, they suck. Warning: There are spoilers throughout this essay. I’m not in the mood to hide anything, you have been warned. It’s disappointing to say this, to reach this conclusion when all is said and done, and I’ve been pondering it for almost a year. Their failure was complete upon the release of The Rise of Skywalker . With that film it became crystal clear, unavoidably so, that Disney never, ever had a plan for its core trilogy. There’s evidence to suggest that
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