New Details on Rey’s Movie Misjudges ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Backlash
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Rian Johnson may have split the fandom in two with The Last Jedi, but J.J. Abrams was the one who brought the nine-film Star Wars saga to a close with little more than a whimper via The Rise of Skywalker. Going out of his way to retcon as much as possible and substitute it with far too much in the way of nostalgia, nods, winks, callbacks, and cameos to the glory days of the franchise, a 52 percent Rotten Tomatoes score sounds about right. And yet, in offering new details to Entertainment Weekly…