This is something which does sadden me to say but the Disney era of Star Wars movies aren't that good and this is coming from someone who owns a copy of The Force Awakens. This is sadly a fact that we must all come to terms to with and while I alot of people have covered this in the past it's something that i myself want to touch upon since we are months away from the release of The Rise Of Skywalker.
Like many of you I was eagerly awaiting the teaser for the new movie and like many of you i'm sure, I was watching the live stream for the panel when it dropped but here's the thing while the trailer played I wasn't that excited for the movie. Of course I was excited because it's a new Star Wars movie so of course there's going to be some level of excitement but when compared to The Last Jedi or The Force Awakens it just wasn't at that same level.
Alot of this comes down to the fact that we've been getting a new Star Wars movie every single year since The Force Awakens. That's alot of movies and when you factor in the fact that alot of those movies haven't been that good and the fact that there's no story planned out it kind of makes it hard to be excited for what is meant to be your big finale.
The Disney era of Star Wars has been more focused on trying to give us strong female characters which isn't a bad thing but there strong characters just aren't that interesting. Leia is a far more interesting then Rey and Holdo combined and alot of that comes from the fact that she's an interesting character and well written Rey could have been interesting the potential was there for her to be a good character but in The Last Jedi they got so caught up with trying to force an agenda down our throats that they forgot to make Rey interesting.
The same thing goes for Holdo she could have been interesting but because this new era is more focused on agenda pushing then creating interesting characters she just comes of as a pointless character. In all honesty the only female character I like at this point is Rose and I know that's kind of a bad thing to say but I honestly feel that she was the best written female character so far but like the rest of you I do agree that the casino sequence in Last Jedi was pointless.
The marketing for this new series often ranges from great to flat out bad and that is a huge issue for me because how are people meant to get excited when you've not given them a reason to be excited. We had to wait until a few months before Solo was coming out before we even got a teaser for the movie and that was because someone thought it was a bad idea to remove people who are fans of the saga from the director's chair.
Solo should have been a movie for the fans and who else better to direct the movie then two people who are fans but tho since we can't have nice things in this new era they got kicked from the film months into production. So what we got left with was something that in theory should have been good but instead ended up being forgettable at best and since I can't remember a single thing about the movie that's all I have to say.
The first two trilogy's in the saga told one story the fall and rise of Anakin Skywalker guess what this trilogy hasn't done. Yeah think about it we are approaching the end of this trilogy of films and there's no overlapping story arc at all each of the main films feels self contained and for one film that wouldn't be a bad thing but to do it for two movies in a row and with a third one on the way you need to wrap things up and the characters aren't in a place where that can naturally happen.
Just based of the first two films in the main saga I have to say that it's use of legacy characters has had very mixed results because while they were treated well in The Force Awakens in The Last Jedi however it was a different story. Those characters in The Last Jedi felt like they were there just because Lucasfilm thought it would please the fans and while it was good to see Luke and Leia together again both of them had nothing to do in the whole film and since these are important characters not just for the fans but also for the world of Star Wars.
As a fan I will be seeing the final movie when it comes out just to see how the Skywalker saga ends but I won't be hopeful for it being that good.