I can put up with Palpatine as a Big Bad for these movies, anyway; Snoke was clearly a red herring. It's just, if you're going to do that, you have to *set it up*.
(I don't think it invalidates Vader's sacrifice, either. His sacrifice still matters, and the galaxy was still saved -- *then*. It just the work needs to continue. Also, because of Rey's *choices*, the Skywalkers are not, actually, extinct. JFTR.)
The Huge Massive Fleet was just ... not reasonable.
The main reason I'm commenting is because, yes, Abrams seems to have intended Broom Boy and his cohort to be completely irrelevant, and to ignore that (very good) plot point from TLJ, *but* -- Finn and his Force Sensitive Friends can be seen as a thread of that. They can be seen as the Force awakening in people you don't expect it in, as an expansion of that possibility. Or, I'd like to think of it that way, because I want to keep some of that thread.
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(I don't think it invalidates Vader's sacrifice, either. His sacrifice still matters, and the galaxy was still saved -- *then*. It just the work needs to continue. Also, because of Rey's *choices*, the Skywalkers are not, actually, extinct. JFTR.)
The Huge Massive Fleet was just ... not reasonable.
The main reason I'm commenting is because, yes, Abrams seems to have intended Broom Boy and his cohort to be completely irrelevant, and to ignore that (very good) plot point from TLJ, *but* -- Finn and his Force Sensitive Friends can be seen as a thread of that. They can be seen as the Force awakening in people you don't expect it in, as an expansion of that possibility. Or, I'd like to think of it that way, because I want to keep some of that thread.