"somehow palpatine returned"? [as foretold in the video game Fortnite]

I’ll be honest: of all the things that bug me about that movie, this is close to the bottom of the list. Not that it’s not bad, but everything else is so much worse

yeah that's fair. the jj cliche setups -> rian destroys the cliches -> jj spends 3rd movie retconning the 2nd results in one of the worst movies i can remember. i don't think jj abrams is a great director, but the trilogy as a whole would be a lot more tolerable if he did it all

Or if Colin Trevorrow did the third as planned. Or if they had put Filoni in a Feige/Marvel type role in charge of overall plot and continuity for the whole trilogy.

or have Rian do all 3 because he wipes the floor with them

oh 100% agree! is his standalone trilogy dead or still in the works?