@glyph@grimalkina@cyberlyra not saying that ROTJ wasn’t good, but it retreaded old ground and set the precedent of “if Tatooine is so boring, why do the movies keep spending time there?” Jabba’s palace, gross eighties aliens, characters going on weird side quests, it all feels like Lucas indulging his storytelling tics and putting that into The Phantom Menace. Leigh Brackett took the sequel in a completely different direction, like Rian Johnson did, and the creators blinked. JJ Abram’s is no George Lucas, so Rise of Skywalker
wasn’t even an interesting mess like Revenge of the Sith