That's what was bugging me -- this ancient Sith dagger somehow makes the coordinates of a junked Death Star only 30 years old.
Add it to the list of plot holes.
I didn't get what difference it made when part of the dagger was extended, as it was the blade itself that lined up.
I watched it again last night, just to make sure I hadn't been too harsh in my judgement.
And no, it really
was that bad.
I can find things I like in all the PT and the rest of the ST, but TROS is a such a low point. Mainly because it was trying to make up for TLJ, tie up loose ends and bring redemption to certain characters.
One of the first things that struck me was the initial three alien species they showed looked like comedy aliens, and seems to set the film at the level of the
Resistance cartoon. (Not that I watched anything beyond the first episode of that series).
Then it's a continual succession of eye rolls at the things that are said, the things that happen, and the the things that ignore previous films.
I know Star Wars is fantasy rather than science fiction, but this one felt more like magic realism. Things didn't happen according to an in-universe reality or consistency. They occurred for other reasons, either to progress events quickly, or to do away with poor decisions made in the previous film.
Leia fades away later, at a point where it can have meaning as a tribute to the passing of Carrie.
Luke's X-Wing emerges fully intact from the water, apparently with all S-foils in place as all the guns are attached. Did Luke take his house door off, dive down and put it back on?
Han appears to Ben, but it's not explained whether this was in his imagination or whether actual supernatural ghosts are a part of the canon. And are there no razors in the afterlife?
To top it off a toad kissed a Disney princess and brought her back to life. And then the toad died, to make up for being a toad.
It's largely a replay of ROTJ, with Vader/Ren coming away from the Dark Side, turning on Palpatine, and finally being forgiven. It's that repetition again, that cycle in Star Wars where things don't actually change at their heart, but only superficially with a change in people and places.
Lando had the honour of saying the immortal line, "I have a bad feeling about this." It was nice to see him again, but he seemed to be doing a lot of laughing. I wonder why.