Ok so I ended up watching episode 9 and in my opinion, as a movie, it’s a bit of a mess, and that’s probably because it feels like they tried to squeeze two movies in one, the first 30 minutes to an hour which played like an extremely weird sort of montage sequence probably could have been made into a movie on its own. It has a lot of interesting themes that could have been explored a lot better if they had the time to hash them out properly but I guess that was the way they tried to salvage the lack of continuity from episode VIII. Palpatine seemed forced in, again it could of worked if clues and hints were included in episode VIII. Rey being a Palpatine also was a bit of a roll my eyes moment. Throughout the whole thing I was left pondering whether JJ had seen the Memberberries episodes of South Park and was deliberately taking the piss. In the end, it was ok, but honestly the only thing I was left feeling was what could have been. There was clearly a lot of potential for this trilogy with great new characters and themes they tried to explore but the lack of a set plan for continuity throughout the 3 episodes seemed to have sucked any soul out of it.
My wife asked me why I carry a gun?, I said "Decepticons"... She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster. It was a good day.