Bronwen actually liked this one more than I did, but I’m just not deeply Jedi enough anymore. Missed Ford, of course, and was saddened by Carrie Fisher’s passing in real life. Mark Hamill seemed out of sorts to me. Maybe. it was me, or maybe it was the writing. It certainly wasn’t The Force. I thought it worked as far as it went, and the explicitly anti-fascist theme was right for our time. Daisy Ridley still strikes me as trying to force it, but Adam Driver has matured into a much more suitable villain, Kylo Ren, as intergalactic tyrant and unsatisfied son-of-a-Jedi. Andy Serkis remained in fine non-form as the evil great leader Snoke. The script? Will George Lucas ever be able to write adult characters who are really interesting?. Ok, but still sort of a disappointment to me