re: Watched The Last Jedi. I don't get the vitriol.

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-The First Order was played completely for laughs, thus removing any sense of threat when we see them on screen. Hux is a buffoon. Kylo Ren has already been beaten by Rey. Why is anyone afraid of them?

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Why was anyone afraid of the Empire after ANH? A farmboy who had never flown a spaceship blew up their Death Star.

Talk about being comically inept.

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Luke’s battle to restore the Jedi to the galaxy is the entire fricking point of the original trilogy. They didn’t call the third act “End of the Empire” or “Emperor’s Fall” or anything like that, they fricking named it Return of the Motherfricking Jedi

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Or....

The Jedi in question isn't the multitudes of Jedi as seen in the prequels, but Anakin.

Maybe the title refers to Anakin returning, and becoming the Jedi he once was.

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So it pisses off fans not a little when the sequel trilogy reveals that that victory was actually a failure, and Luke himself is not the awesome Jedi we saw him as at the end of RotMJ, but is instead a bitter old man who has decided that Jedi are stupid and the whole thing was a bad idea. And then Force Ghost Yoda shows up andinexplicably fricking agrees with him. If Yoda believed that the Jedi needed to die out, why go to all the trouble to train Luke as one in the original trilogy? Why not just show him the right way to hold a lightsaber and leave it at that? 

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Yoda basically did that in the OT. He trained Luke to be a weapon, not a master.

Luke sought out the Jedi texts and taught himself to be a "master" and discovered that the Jedi religion was flawed and more harmful than not.