Exactly! They act like it's this big gotcha that they needed such a simple plot spoon fed to them from outside sources but all they keep doing is openly insulting their own intelligence, lol.
But these are the kids that grew up with midichlorians so to them they probably feel like they *need* unnecessary explanations for a fantasy story to make sense.
If you didn't like it just say you didn't like it. Quit embarrassing yourself with all these ridiculous "reasons" that you didn't like it.
Damn right I'll never hide under the cover of *any* celebrity's opinion as a way of bolstering my own. No thanks, lol. It is funny watching the whiplash of those who do however. "When Mark Hamill says something I agree with it's because my opinion is RIGHT! When he says something I disagree with it's because, uh, someone is holding a gun to his head, yeah, that's it!" lol And to my knowledge Daisy Ridley has never once lashed out at any fans or said that she didn't like TROS. She most certainly was tiptoeing around her pre-TROS interviews because I'm sure she was worried about getting blindsided by more TLJ-level backlash so was most likely hedging her bets in case it sucked.
But even if she did hate TROS what would that change? Oh she got the references to Dark Empire, the discarded Kurtz/Lucas trilogy, Conan the Barbarian and Friday the 13th? Yeah right!
I'm sure her blu-ray collection looks *just* like mine so yes I'll let her speak for me on what's cool or not, lol.
TLJ and more importantly RJ's asinine attacks on the fanbase post-TLJ are what turned away millions who will never praise anything ST related just on principle because of that. I get it. And I get that there were still some people who watched TROS with an open mind and were still disappointed. Totally fair. But for me the movie rocked on pretty much every level despite crazy stuff like the nonsensical horse charge but even that is fun in its own way. There's big money in bashing SW these days so no surprise that the YouTubers go for the clicks rather than breaking ranks from the hive.