despite Abrams's attempts to repeat the original trilogy and Johnson's attempts to break with tradition and people's complaints against Johnson for it, The Last Jedi I think has the most of these, both good and bad ones.
IV and VII:
- three cool core characters introduced, two boys and one girl
- the two boys have very gay chemistry and lots of people ship them and at least one of the actors supports people reading their character as gay
- a boy and the girl also have chemistry
- droid with important intel on desert planet
- murderball
- darksider with voice-changey helmet who is still subordinate to British imperial officers
- someone gets Anakin's lightsaber
- someone Refuses The Call to be a jedi or whatever
- murderball destroys planet that you know nothing about at all
- old mentor character killed by his son/apprentice darksider on the murderball
- they blow up the murderball
- Chewie forgotten, prioritizing newcomer human
- Leia comforts someone who lost someone they basically just met when she just had a huge loss herself
V and VIII:
- at the start things are going badly for the resistance
- split the party
- separate the boys so they can't be gay :(
- but they do at least have a brief moment when one is injured?
- one of the gays annoys an upper-class Alderaanian woman for the whole movie
- rebel ship being chased and time and space for things happening with the different groups don't make any sense?
- force student from desert planet along with R2-D2 tracks down old jedi master hermit on remote planet
- old jedi master hermit has disgusting diet
- hermit initially refuses to train student
- spooky force cave
- student has force phone calls with darksider
- student leaves when master says they shouldn't
- darksider no longer subject to British oversight
- cool lightsaber fight scene
- Anakin's lightsaber gone again
- betrayed by someone from the bougie planet
- walkers attack ice planet base
- Leia uses the force
- jedi master does something really impressive with the force
- at the end things are still going badly for the resistance
VI and IX: (I haven't actually watched IX just know a few things from synopses lol)
- student is a more fully trained jedi now
- Sheev's alive
- murderball's back again
- weird little alien guy
- Forest Moon of Endor
- lightning
- none of the main character ships happen :(
- irredeemable war criminal darksider is redeemed and dies
- Sheev's dead again
- force ghosts show up