I think this is a weird, but important topic; absolutely no one has a "right" or "wrong" here. The original Star Wars movie, episode 4 is often compared to the Monomyth of Joseph Campbell, the "Hero's Journey". The episode 4 were a brilliant hole in one, a big success, and episode 5 and 6 probably surfed a bit on the fame of the first, equal to how Matrix film 2-3 did.
It's as if we compare someone trying to
make a Hero's Journey, to a "George R. R. Martin" style way of making stories. Both is brilliant. What I'm puzzled over, is no direction behind the movies, especially since Marvel did this, and it seems to work. If you prefer Rian Johnson or J. J. Abrams is no problem, in itself.
Disney obviously started, based on the writer / directors interviews, on making movies with no idea behind story arcs, no idea where they go. Its a bit like series like Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda where loose episodes were bought pell mell off the marked, and storylines were added ad-hoc.
Imho: this is like a D&D storyline, where something crashes, and the DM just make up stuff, and got no idea what happens in the future. Problem is, we now know no one knew where the story ended, and made up the story, here it is, hope you have a fun evening, goodbye..
Rian Johnson contradicted, wrote off, annulled and countered almost every plot, hook, and ignored everything ever written on monomyth or the Hero's Journey. That is fine. The Last Jedi was a great experience in the cinema, though puzzled me, afterwards. The Jedi books is an example; I could fill pages with stuff making little sense in "Star Wars", and the "Disney canon" is jumping as Night Goblins on squigs all over the place; we now know the Jedi got Holocrons for first time in "real canon", and the movie introduce.... Books? Never knew they existed in Star Wars main culture!
I like the new trailer, btw.
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