Okay, here are my assorted thoughts immediately after watching The Last Jedi:

It wasn’t as terrible as the worst warnings- but it wasn’t as good as to be worth critical acclaim – and not a deep movie needing re-watching to be appreciated or any great and engaging themes. Was I as dissatisfied as after The Force Awakens? Probably not, because I was mentally checking out as the film was rolling and before.

The big one: until the final sequence when and after Kylo Ren assumes his place as Supreme Leader, I was rolling my eyes or barely able to watch the screen when he was on it. I am not joking. I was forcing myself to watch with only one eye open because holy fuck did I not want to watch this character. I don’t care about any allegations of Luke’s ruined character (which- they made him Yoda without hope as I knew they would from the beginning of TFA, so whatever poor characterization choices and logic holes are just inherited from TFA, like the fucking terrible limited Resistance versus a First Order that they say is in-universe a fringe group and yet has resources of the Empire and of which the destruction of the Starkiller base had zero impact on them how?)

General Hondo – hated her. Hated her character design (purple hair and impractical drapey dress), hated that plot hole time waste red herring POORLY written. oh, I won’t say the escape ships with having cloaking because ….why? So we can have Poe and audience not trust her/try to make a big reveal of her actual plan? (which I was expecting more than just ‘cloaking’) So we can make a statement about posturing and figureheads and hope versus being your own hero and yet completely miss the point or go back on your point. To have a critique of the rich and powerful autocrats and yet our mutineers are wrong and the sole leader coming in and not sharing any information with those under them is right and shouldn’t need to share info with the proles.

Poe is a hothead pilot now for this movie? sure.

Felt like it was written as ‘see how the male character doesn’t trust a woman in power’ but it felt poorly done and the slapping was uncomfortable and yes drag the movie for this

The casino was pointless. It tried to be Mos Eisley Cantina. Wasn’t. Special Effects were terrible for it and the horse things. The scum hacker guy was annoying. Ah yes, I get what he was supposed to be, foil for Finn’s arc.

FUCKING HELL – that the opening several scenes with Finn were playing him as the comedic butt of jokes. That enraged me.

Ben Solo was not attractive. He wasn’t engaging.  All the ‘rey-lo’ subtext scenes were *bleuch* 

Look, her motivation depended on that she was inspired and buying into this myth/story of Luke Skywalker who redeemed his father Darth Vader- as if she had watched the OT. Which only works if that story is widely known in detail throughout the galaxy. but then the Ben Solo idolizing Vader or not knowing the Anakin Skywalker reveal until Snoke told him- if that’s the supplementary info- makes no sense. Also, Ben’s Snoke-motivated turn to the Dark Side? ARE we going to actually get any info on that? It seemed like something that would have been important for this plot.

Salt Planet Crait with the red versus white was a visual decision that made that last third of that movie worth watching.

Paige’s opening scene and having her grieving sister Rose was excellent.

So we purposefully avoided having Finn and Rey meet up in Snoke’s Ship? …O..kay.

Every time a Porg died or was shooed away I cheered in the theater

The Millennium Falcon sweeping in to wreck the FO and Kylo felt like the arrival of Han Solo’s vengeful ghost and I loved it.

The Force mental projection shit was bullshit for me for all the Rey/Kylo scenes but also I was mentally and physically raising a middle finger for all of that. But having the twist that Luke was doing it at great mental cost I did like- it explained how he survived the fired at by everything and other things, so I liked it. But arbitrary okay end of this episode we have to kill off the next member of the trio. Episode IX is gonna be AWKWARD.

Unless sweeper boy is reborn Anakin Skywalker- I don’t care and nor did I see it as a Force belongs to everyone know scene because guess what, That Already Was a Concept that slave boy can have Force powers – did y’all not watch TPM? But yeah- the galatic super special dynasty of Skywalkers DOESN’T MAKE SENSE IN-UNIVERSE as this logn trope when it is literally only slave boy from nowhere with nothing becomes Emperor’s right hand man but nobody knows that’s him or anything about who he was/came from- then his son who was a nobody farmer boy from planet deathworld of zero importance. It fell into the trap of treating characters in-universe like the viewing public pop culture thinks of them.

Yoda was obviously supposed to look like ESB puppet Yoda- because he looked like shit.