I love when I talk about how TRoS failed narratively in its choice to kill Ben Solo and then a hundred very boring people try to make a counterpoint by explaining the film plot as if I hadn’t watched it.

Yes, Josh, I did watch the movie. That’s how I know it wasn’t very good.

“But he had to die!” Honey what I am doing here is film criticism, not restating the plot verbatim as if its simple existence justifies its creative choices.

Anyone who says “but he had to die it couldn’t have happened any other way” lacks both heart and imagination and I would trust their creative output about as far as I could vomit it up.