Finally saw this.
I gotta echo @Israel_B.
When the prequels were announced, this was what I thought Episode III would be. The ending, at least.
And also agree with everyone who wasn’t surprised that they all died, even if they weren’t misremembering the Bothans line. I thought it had been made clear from pretty early on when the vague gist of this film was suggested (and I’ve gone out of my to avoid as much as possible).
Anyway, I liked it a whole lot more than TFA (although that got worse the more I reflected on it, I enjoyed it fine when I first saw it). But I think Edwards is a much better director than Abrams, so that doesn’t surprise me.
I’m still amused that old British 8- and 16- bit computer games reviewer Gary Whitta is now a Hollywood screenplay writer.
Could have done without bits of Garven Dreis being spliced in. Didn’t mind, but thought it was a bit silly. Not hugely in favour of fan servicing like that.
