Finally starting to catch up with all the thoughts on here. It's a weird thing to say that I kinda enjoyed aspects of a ST film on first sitting. That hasn't happened before.
I saw that you redacted a comment about warming up to certain aspects of TLJ.
But still, some excruciating moments. Why is nobody talking about the creepy moment at the end with Lando and Jannah? My wife (not a SW fan at all) turns to me and says "wtf was that?!" I had no answer - other than "hello, what have we here...?".
I'm assuming there was some beat that got cut that she's Lando's daughter or something, but onscreen it's like grandpa firmly pressing his hand onto the hot young thing's thigh.
I read that there were indeed scenes cut that revealed that Lando's daughter was taken by the FO at an early age and that he'd been searching for her for years and that his comment was the result of that. However to cut the backstory and leave his interaction with Jannah as is was an unusual choice. I guess they figured that we wouldn't assume the worst since it's Lando and even not knowing that he had a missing daughter can just assume that he was going to help her find her own family. I mean obviously that was the intent but yeah, the execution could certainly be seen as "problematic" in a post-Bill Cosby world, lol.