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The sequels would've fared better if they didn't have underlying tones of trying to appeal to minorities. They should've just been made with the same old flash and flare of the movies and shows before it and nobody would've complained as much. The only reason they've been shit on is because all of them starred a Mary Sue character and people noticed how woke the movies were trying to be.
Oh and Darth Vader is stupidly overrated. There are Sith who I can argue, who can wipe the floor with him.
The Mary Sue isn't a problem (well it is, but not a big one), the issue is with them killing off and shitting on previously established characters. Luke suddenly isn't the chosen one, all he did was kill his dad and a dude that later returns "somehow". Luke, whose entire deal is that he doesn't give up on people and sees good in them even when they are lost to the dark side, gives up on a young teenager. Palpatine claims the Skywalker name. Also the lightsaber battles were crap, the actors didn't learn them as much as the ones in prequels did, they werenn't as elaborate. It is a lot of decisions that ruin the previous movies, basically discrediting the struggle of their characters.
One thing about the sequel lightsaber battles is that the lightsabers bounce way too much off eachother. That was clear as day when Rey first fought Kylo Ren in that snowy forest.
Yeah, that too. What pisses me off the most, is Kylo having a crossguard and doing fuckall with it. They had the option of introducing some cool HEMA moves, but they squandered it all and he is fighting the exact same as other jedis without a crossguard.
Regarding the lightsaber battles, it makes sense.
Prequels- full Jedi school teaching people how to fight, battles are big & elaborate.
OG trilogy: Vader was a Jedi, but 68% of him is droid parts so not quite as flashy as he used to be. Luke was taught by an actual Jedi, so he knows some stuff but he never went through school to learn things properly.
Sequels: I found a lightsaber & I'm gonna cosplay a Jedi! The only one with any actual training was Kylo, and he got expelled from school before he learned everything.
The rule is "rule of cool" not "rule of what makes sense". The lightsaber duels suck, they should've polished them a lot better.