Nothing about this works for me. J.J. Abrams and Terrio criminally ignore everything that happened in THE LAST JEDI. Luke isn't "The spark that will burn the First Order down" it's horny Lando. Poe didn't learn vital lessons how to lead, he nearly dooms the fleet again. It's bad. https://twitter.com/jtimsuggs/status/1310025739610316800

The fact horny Lando inspires the entire galaxy *off camera* is just vinegar poured in the wound. It's like Abrams and Terrio were scared to mention Luke's sacrifice at all (why??), which is impressively bad when it would've just been more logical, economical storytelling. Alas.

Also this is just hideous. The whole "battle" (most of which is off-screen?) has none of the visual beauty or balance of Lucas' CGI fleets in the prequels. "It's so dense" to the nth degree.

Abrams learns nothing from the best battles of the saga. It's the worst battle in all of Star Wars. A montage of nothing. If you want a mess of toy kit ships to matter, you need to give us hero moments to make us care. That's what drums up genuine suspense, like this:

I hate that the Naboo Starfighters joining the battle is reduced to a READY PLAYER ONE easter egg and not a meaningful call back that would help unite the whole saga

TL;DR they just didn't care