I have been wanting to put my thoughts down for each movie but I feel it is better to keep them together by their trilogy. Mainly because I know if I start talking about one movie it will flow to the others of that trilogy. I was going to start with The Original Trilogy but realized that since Episode 8 came out I am just so irritated that I have to talk about it first.

When it was announced Disney had purchased Star Wars I was happy. I believed Disney could do Star Wars justice like how the Marvel Cinematic Universe is really great. When Disney announced they were making the Expanded Universe of Star Wars non-canon I was okay with this. I like a lot of the EU, but definitely parts of it needed to go. I figured they will take the best elements of the EU and use them in the movies. I did not figure they would completely trash it.

As novels were talked about and a few hints as to what episode 7 would be I was not understanding why Timothy Zahn was not being mentioned. Why was he not writing anything? But oh well, I decided to wait and see. And yes if you don’t know I am a huge fan of Timothy Zahn. The EU novels he wrote are the best and the characters he made are amazing! Truly he should have written the Sequel Trilogy. He could have made the changes Disney wanted and added to the EU elements he created to keep a lot of what we loved alive.

I got tickets for The Force Awakens in IMAX 3D. It was not opening night but the next morning cause I did not want to wait, but also wanted to avoid huge crowds. The nostalgia that everyone felt was apparent. The new characters BB8, Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren were all really good. But I was upset that we really did not get much of Captain Phasma, Snoke, or Maz Kanata to feel like they were any bit important to the movie. Yes, you can’t have too much for every character, But if Captain Phasma is hyped to be something new and awesome and you get an amazing actress to play the role then It should have been more.

I was enjoying the movie for the most part. I loved the interaction between Rey and Finn and even BB8. I feel that the actors really sold their characters and made extra steps to give hints about things we did not necessarily know yet. (Like in who Rey’s family is. Cause if you pay attention there are things Han and Kylo did that showed they knew who she was. in fact, you’d think if Daisey Ridley said she did not understand why people did not know who her parents were that at least RJ could have figured it out.) I did not feel Rey was a mary sue because I had seen enough in the movie to see where they were showing she had a background that no one knew not even her. (In the scene where Kylo Ren tries to get into her mind I find it rather apparent that Rey showed a look that something came back to her. Like the realization of things she forgot.) And though I really did not like the overall story of there being a new empire and a new rebellion I enjoyed the experience for the most part.

What I did not enjoy was the treatment of Han Solo. No, not that he died or how he died. It was how they made him a slimy no good piece of trash. He apparently walked out on Leia and Kylo. He also liked to make deals with people backstabbing others. So this completely ignores his arch in the Original Trilogy. He was a scoundrel in A New Hope. The type of guy who would save his own ass first. But he wasn’t slimy. He did not break a deal with Jabba to get money from someone else. He saved his own ass when confronted by the empire. He then had gone through such an experience with Luke and Leia that he came back after getting paid to make sure Luke was okay. He had grown so much in the OT that in Return of the Jedi when they described the mission to go to the forest moon of Endor Leia said, “I wonder who they got to pull that off.” Han became a true hero and a caring person. But the next time we see him What do we get? complete 360 to a worse person than he was originally.

I also absolutely hated the new “Super Death Star”. It defied all logic and was only there to make the movie feel like episode 4. (The idea that a planet could suck a sun into it and still be cold, then spit that energy out where it splits into 5 equal parts and goes through wormholes, then teleport across the galaxy to 5 different planets where everyone in the galaxy could see it defies any common sense.) If they wanted to make a Starkiller they could have used the EU story of the Suncrusher, (call it the Starkiller) which is a ship that sends a payload into the sun causing it to explode which in turn wipes out that solar system that is connected to it. This could have gotten them the same result while making sense and fans of the EU would have gotten an Easter Egg. Instead, the whole of the movie was really just a new version of A New Hope. That is not the direction Star Wars should have gone. It ignores the past movies and discredits the EU as if to say none of it was any good.

I am not saying they should have done a story straight out of the EU, but they branded the EU as “Legends”, so why not make that make sense? Legends are based in truth. They could have put pieces of the EU in these new movies and given people who never read the EU a reason to buy it. But no they killed any reason to read an EU novel. Well, no reason if this version of Star Wars was going to be what people hang on to. (Now that TLJ came out I only hold onto the EU.)

After I watched TFA I became pessimistic. Yes, I enjoyed parts of the movie, but I knew they were going to have a different director for each movie and they would not pick up on the plot points of the last movie. To do that you need to understand Star Wars. And Disney proved with The Force Awakens they did not understand Star Wars. Kylo stopping a blaster bolt with a thought and with no effort kept it there? That is not the force. That is way too much power. If you can stop laser with a thought, no one could wield a lightsaber against you. Hell, you could take every blaster bolt and move it to hit other people and no one could ever stop you. Making the villains unstoppable doesn’t make a good movie because when your hero beats them you disprove what you set up.

And though The Last Jedi proved I was right and Disney did not plan ahead and make a consistent plotline and story for the new movies Rogue One came out and made me take back my words. Why? Cause Rogue One did think things through and connected with ANH in such an awesome way that I loved it. So I had hope that Disney would make a better movie to make me okay with how TFA went. It was going to continue in the plots and show how Rey was able to use the force, and why Kylo Ren knew who she was, and why Luke was not around, and who Snoke was, and why he was leading this new empire. But no, we got the dumbest sequel movie I have ever seen in my life. The story contradicts TFA, with the OT, and with itself. Instead of coming up with a good story that cleaned up the mess, TFA left RJ decided to troll Star Wars fans and make a crappy parody of a Star Wars movie.

TLJ was beyond horrible. There is so much to complain about. How they made Luke into something so foreign from what Luke was. There was not even a build-up to this change. How the new characters added nothing new or even good. I won’t discredit the actors, they did not write this garbage, but their characters were a waste of time. The movie would have been improved greatly by removing them. And the overall story arc of a slow chase in space has to be one of the saddest plots ever made. The idea that the whole entirety of the movie was the amount of time they spent on this chase means that the other characters like Rey and Chewie, and Finn and Rose were able to cross the galaxy in moments. Hyperspace has apparently become even more hyper and truly why, if Holdo thought it a good idea to jump through the first order, did they not decide to do that with one of the many ships they left behind. It is crazy that the plot of the movie is based on people who are on the same side that doesn’t talk out any strategy. I mean from the beginning Poe refuses to take orders from Leia. Then it gets worse as it goes on. The resistance showed that they should have been destroyed long ago, but thankfully the first order is led by the keystone cops.

I have a lot of negative feelings about the Sequel Trilogy because of how deeply Star Wars has been a part of my life. George Lucas is one of my heroes and has been a big inspiration to me. I know I am not the only one, but feel I have to be a voice for all of us who are upset with this movie and the direction Disney Wars is going. If you did not want to make Star Wars based on the continuity then make something new and no one would be upset, but to take what exist and change it into something foreign is wrong. I am not saying they stole my childhood or any other silly thing. They took nothing from me other than a hope there would be good Star Wars stories I could see and read about after RotJ. Because the EU is owned by Disney and was killed I have no reason to ever believe I will get another good Star Wars story.

One thing good writers do is tell a story their characters tell them. What I mean by that is when a character is created and their journey as a person develops it becomes apparent to the writer how the character will react to certain situations. They don’t write a character one way for one story, then in the next, the character makes different choices unless that character goes through some life-altering event. So as a writer tells a story it becomes easier for them to see their character and know who they are on a deeper level. This is why we fans are pissed about how Luke was trashed. Because there was no build-up for a change in his character. I know I am not the only one to say this, but Luke, a man who went to face Vader and the Emperor, did it knowing he would most likely die. Why did he do it? Because he felt that Vader, his father, had a little bit of good in him. So he was willing to die for a man he barely knew because he felt there was a chance he could be good again. Now years later we are supposed to believe that Luke’s first thought to a vision of what Ben (his nephew, a kid he knew from birth, the son of his best friend and sister) would make Luke think I need to kill this little bastard to save the galaxy. That is utterly ridiculous and people who like it have no care for logic, reasoning, or common sense. This is not good writing, this is a lazy story written for plot convenience. I still don’t see how this helps RJ tell his story. Because then end of The Last Jedi is supposed to show us how Luke is a hero that inspires people to join the resistance. How? No one saw him and what he did on that planet but the First Order. So how did little kids hear the story and why would it inspire? How does a man who could have fought the First Order’s rise to power, but instead ran and hid, inspire people by creating a visual distraction that, in the end, killed him?

I guess I can’t finish this without complaining about how Disney Wars has no understanding of the Force. First off, the Force is not magic. So you can’t just lackadaisically go “Poof, what do you need?” (Yes I am quoting the Genie from Aladdin.) In Harry Potter and Lord of the RIngs, you can find magic. And while there are some similarities to people on a simplistic level, if you really understand it, it is closer to what psionics is than it would ever be to magic. In the previous movies, there are certain rules that the Force follows. 1, It takes concentration or focus to use. At no time in any George Lucas film did the force user not concentrate to accomplish things with the force. Even Yoda who in many people’s opinion is the most powerful force user ever still had to concentrate. We see it when he levitated the X-wing as when he fought the Emperor. So Kylo Ren stopping a blaster bolt in mid-air and holding it there without any effort is dumb. 2, When two force users battle there is a force of will challenge. Now, for the most part, this is done well between Rey and Kylo Ren. Though we don’t know why Rey is as strong. But when Rey is picked up and thrown around like a rag doll by Snoke there is no contest. Why is there no struggle at all especially when they show her to be stronger than Kylo Ren in these force of will battles? 3, The Force works the same for everyone. Not saying that people can’t do different things with the force, heck no one can use every force ability. You see that people use certain force abilities that others can’t. Vader was one of a few who could stop blaster energy with his hand. So why is it when Luke uses the force to project himself across the galaxy it kills him, but when Snoke does something even more powerful, by force projecting two other people to each other where they are even to the point of being affected by the natural surroundings, it does not kill him? Is Snoke suppose to be some kind of  “force god”? To me, these failures of understanding the Force are huge and break what the Force is making it all overpowered magic.

I thought a lot about how I could have fixed this, but in the end, I thought why fix this? Is this able to be fixed by JJ? I joke that if Episode 9 starts with Rey waking up screaming and Luke saying “It’s alright. The nightmare is over.” Then It could fix the problem of TLJ, but How does anything fix their lack of understanding the continuity? Because saying this is a fantasy and fantasy has no rules is wrong. Every fantasy has a set of rules that they set up in the beginning. Anyone who has ever played Dungeons & Dragons will tell you there are defining rules about each fantasy world out there. Star Wars is no exception and has effectively done that over the course of 6 movies. As well as in games, comics, and novels even if some of them are not canon. Where the Sequel Trilogy fails the most is in having multiple directors. Because they are all allowed to write whatever they want instead of having one team of writers who know the continuity come together and build a 3 part story that connects to each other as well as the past.

This is why the Sequel Trilogy is not “Star Wars.” It is “Disney Wars.” It has turned the force into a female mage I guess. I don’t hate magic, but I don’t want magic in Star Wars cause it was never there. I don’t hate women, in fact, the opposite. My opinion of how I view “women” is heavily influenced by Carrie Fisher.  A woman who I find to be strong, independent, intelligent, and overall amazing. Disney Wars has shown to have a lack of original thought, has decided that instead of having a positive story of good versus evil that they would rather push a political narrative that insults the Star Wars universe. It is insulting to the Legacy of Carrie Fisher who was the first strong female character in a movie. So to say they have to change Star Wars to make it diverse or for women when it always was. Makes this a huge load of shit.

To me, Disney would have been better off by jumping 200 years after RotJ. Imagine TFA where it is 200 years later and almost everything happens in the same way except that no Han Solo, General Leia, or mention of Luke Skywalker being needed to be found. Instead, it starts where info is given to Poe to find an ancient homeworld of the Jedi because they believe there might be some out there who could help in fighting the new dark side force users. When Rey finds the Falcon she is captured by Chewie who is traveling with someone we don’t know. (they could be a descendant of Han or not) Chewie takes them to Maz to help them find the resistance cause people don’t know where they are. Rey still gets Luke’s lightsaber. When Kylo Ren comes into play we hear nothing of a real name and who he is related to causing that is not important. In the end, Rey along with a few others are sent to the lost Jedi world to seek help. Luke then could appear to her as a force ghost to instruct her. This is the story that could have been told that does not focus on old characters but connects things.

So, in short, the Sequel trilogy has become “What could have been.” Because It could have been great in many different ways.

When I originally wrote this The Rise of Skywalker had not yet come out. In order to make this about the Sequel trilogy, I have to talk about the full trilogy.

I did not watch The Rise of Skywalker and never will. I know enough of the plot to talk about it and enough that makes me too disgusted to want to see it. This movie just proves many of my points. First, that they did not think the movies through. Which now JJ admits to no plan. Second, that having multiple directors is a bad idea. Lastly that they do not understand anything about Star Wars.

Why this movie is called the RoS is apparent. They wanted to try to win back fans with the name. No other reason exists. This movie turns the Skywalker Saga into the Palpatine Saga. It proves that Palpatine was the one who is the focus of everything leading to his granddaughter. So, yes I hate that. Palpatine was defeated and dead. He should not come back. It removes the prophecy from being about Anakin.

When they gave us the Knights of Ren instead of bringing back sith I thought wow, that is truly a great idea and makes sense. I was blown away they came up with that because I feel that is right. Sith should no longer exist. But I don’t think they did that with any understanding. They just wanted to make something of their own. In the end, the Knights of Ren are nothing more than a title. Nothing came from it. It was wasted potential.

What they did was make a movie that gave RJ the finger for giving JJ the finger in TLJ. It set out to contradict TLJ. It should have not just contradicted the movie but pretend it never happened. I still think my idea of TLJ being a bad dream is better than accepting anything of it.

Everything that happened in RoS was an attempt to appease fans. They brought back everyone they could, they pushed silly plots, they tried to make Luke’s saber feel important again. They then added more magic items like the magic dagger. None of it made sense to me. So, why would I go to see this movie? I already said I am done with “Disney Wars.” TLJ was the last time I ever spent money on anything Star Wars. Disney IE Lucas film will get no money from me till KK is gone.

So what did the final movie in the Sequel trilogy do? Well, it contradicted TLJ meaning that all 3 movies really don’t fit together. It changed the focus from Skywalker to Palpatine, ruining the idea that this story was about the Skywalkers. It dropped the ball on every plot. It killed the last of the Skywalker lineage in Kylo Ren, so now there are no connections to the OT. It put the final nail in the coffin for Star Wars movies. Notice not one movie has come out since and they really don’t have a plan for one cause they have no clue as to what direction to go.

If this doesn’t prove that Lucas Film is lead by a person who knows nothing and cares nothing about Star Wars I don’t what else to say other than maybe you don’t care about Star Wars. I am just with the rest of the Fans of Star Wars wanting KK gone and DF and JF to have control so Star Wars will be able to move forward and become what it is meant to be.