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You need to see it before making this assertion. There were plenty of elements to work with coming from TFA even if that film was a rehash. At the end of VIII you are left with few interesting characters, no interesting mysteries, a feeling of the directors lack of knowledge/respect for what has come before, no serious villains remaining and generally little reason to watch IX. I believe all of this lies on the shoulders of RJ.
shareYou're not wrong, that I should see the film before making any final judgment. Problem is, I just don't want to because of how much I disliked The force awakens. I just see a lot of fan criticism, and there is a lot, directed at The Last Jedi and Rian Johnson for many things I see as a failing of Episode 7.
I can agree that Rian made the situation worse, but I do think a majority of his failings come from Force Awakens leaving everything too open ended with no context given on plot backstories or characters thus leaving him 2 options I discussed.
Honestly if he just gave the film the expected route, Like having Rey be Luke's daughter and having her Lose* in a fight to Kylo say; would not that have received heavy backlash for just "playing it safe" or "Rehashing ESB"?
I believe you need to strike a balance of what is reasonable for the story itself. You don't need to do safe or fan service but at the same time you have to keep it within the universe and keep your characters in line with what was before.
The character of Luke in this film has little connection to the previous incarnation, he simply isn't a believable extension of what we saw before. Rey and Kylo is a more difficult issue because JJ made a mistake having Rey fight and defeat Kylo. It weakened Kylo and cemented perceptions that she is nothing but a Mary Sue. RJ did nothing to fix this, Kylo is just as weak and Rey is just as overpowered add that to Snoke being entirely wasted and RJ made it overall worse. Rose, Finn and Phasma? might as well have cut them out of this movie, nothing lost and precious time gained back and the list continues on and on.
RJ is not solely to blame for the state of this trilogy, but he is to blame for the overall quality and decisions made in this film. Kennedy is probably the one that is primarily to blame for the mess the trilogy finds itself in today. They should have outlined the entire trilogy and had the directors work within that outline. Instead we tossed away what JJ did and pissed off the third director and he left the project..that is on Kennedy. R1 is still the best of what has come out of the Disney offerings and I don't think Solo is likely to change that.
HEy, sorry, I had a reply earlies but for some reason my replies were vanishing. I do not remember everything that I wrote before, but I do know that I mostly agreed with a majority of your comments.