my thoughts on RoS are "enjoyable if you're looking for visual spectacle, hot garbage if you're looking for the final part of the story set up by all the other movies"
The complete reversal on several key themes the previous two movies set up just to turn everything into a rehash of RotJ, the sidelining of several significant characters, "Somehow, Palpatine has returned"
Plot-critical Fortnite tie-in event
Just, the perfect encapsulation of what one would expect from the phrase "Disney Star Wars"
something I think about a lot is how "somehow, Palpatine has returned" could've been a genuinely good twist if it wasn't a hasty attempt to course correct from angering all the worst nerds in the world. it turns out that in the mid-to-late 2010s, "assuming that you totally definitively defeated fascism and that it will never rear its ugly head again is a big mistake, and an adversary that you do not take seriously could very easily turn out to be the source of its return" was an incredibly relevant and worthwhile theme worth exploring, and if the trilogy had, from its start, set out to be about something, it wouldn't have taken much change at all in the first two movies to make that idea work really well. of course, that would've required J.J. Abrams to have even a single real idea, and it also would've required Star Wars fans to not instantly recoil at the idea of themes appearing in a movie — which, as we learned when Rian Johnson decided to do a movie that was actually about something, is impossible.