"LJ didn't destroy the trilogy. What drove it into the ground was desperately pivoting with Rise of Skywalker and trying to gaslight us into believing LJ didn't happen. It was the most reactionary bullshit you can imagine."

What is this bullshit?

"The Last Jedi" picked up the threads from the previous film and threw them away ... in one case, literally.

Johnson totally dismantled Finn and pushed the Ren-Rey romantic relationship as the key one in this trilogy.

Why? Maybe the same reason why the Asian promotional material hit Finn and why novelisation author Alan Dean Foster was required to undermine the Finn-Rey relationship?

Poe was then turned into a women-hating idiot who destroyed the fleet because he didn't want to listen to female leaders.

And people are defending these decisions?

The biggest offense was to Rey, by the way.

TFA set her up to be powerful.

Framed her growth in power as something VERY stark and probably to be grappled with.

But TLJ...just threw that away.

It's because Rey exists to simply service Kylo's story, not the other way around.

Kylo ends TFA scarred, having murdered a couple of father figures and totally rejected by Rey. He starts Johnson's film with his shirt off and Rey making googly eyes at this school shooter.

Johnson admitted that he saw Kylo and Rey in TFA as the beginning of a "romantic" and "intimate" dynamic. She saw him murder his father and her mentor and Johnson felt that was "romantic" and "intimate"?

Jesus.

"Fans complained until RoS came out and then realised what a terrible mistake it had been to raise such a fuss. Because let's be honest, at least LJ was trying to go somewhere."

Going where?

The only subplot that anyone liked from TLJ was a direct follow-up to TFA (Luke, Rey and Kylo) while the subplots that everyone hated had nothing to do with the previous films and was a direct rip-off of Battlestar Galactica.

- Opening the film with a chase was not a choice dictated by TFA. In fact, that film ends with the Resistance secure after a mission completed. Johnson's plot point is stolen wholesale from the "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries.

- TLJ opens with the Resistance in crisis mode and looking to escape the enemy with the ascension of an unknown leader. That's the BSG pilot.

- The inciting incident is the heroes realizing that the villains are tracking them. That's BSG episode "33".

- That plot is resolved when the CO performs a one-in-a-million maneuver that uses the physics of space flight. That's the conclusion of the New Caprica Arc.

Honestly, I'd rather Johnson had just ripped off one episode and that's it.

By jumbling all these stories together, he's failed to understand why Moore and co made these choices in the first place.