Star Wars Appreciation **Spoilers Ahead**

I'm conflicted about it. To be positive, aspects of it were really good. My two favourite parts: Snoke, his chamber and his guards (wasn’t expecting to like Snoke so much, even though his sudden demise was bizarre), and Yoda (who was perfectly puppet-like and such a relief). The casino scene was good but didn’t go anywhere.

For me it started off great and steadily fell into an overly drawn out mess. I hated the final act on that wanky red mineral planet with those ludicrous Swarovski foxes. The suped-up AT-ATs that didn’t anything were annoying. It was essentially a boring and depressing redo of Hoth. Also Luke Skywalker as a telekinetic vision was RIDICULOUS. How then was his lightsabre resistant? The Rey/Ren exchanges were dreadful too, since when was that a thing? The story was total crap, let’s be honest, and the psychodrama was not interesting. Rey is just not a compelling character to my mind, she has absolutely no gravitas. When I watch her I’m constantly aware of someone acting. Luke was surprisingly good but I didn’t like his finale one bit. Lastly there were some really funny bits but it felt offbeat and almost like a spoof? The iron for instance, LOL but FFS. Oh and Kylo seeming to ‘come to the light’ against Snoke but then remaining a baddie. He seemed more indecisive than conflicted! What a lame villain. None of the cold, ruthless mystery of Vader. And, like TFA, no sense of what the First Order is about or their presence in the galaxy. And nothing to differentiate them from the Empire because, ultimately, this is more a reboot than a continuation of the saga. And I hoped Phasma would have an actual role. And SURELY Rey was Luke’s daughter???! WTF. Lastly, Finn was great but underused and Rosie was irritating.

On balance I think I do know how I feel, I just don’t want to feel this way!