Odd one out: 'The Last Jedi' is so ill-fitting, you could leave it out and miss almost nothing
I've been thinking a lot about how The Rise of Skywalker (TRoS) is basically just a sequel to The Force Awakens (TFA). Whatever you think about the three sequel films (collectively and individually), there is no denying that The Last Jedi (TLJ) is the odd one out. All that's really of any relevance is that Kylo references the fact that he supposedly "never lied" when he told Rey her parents were nobodies, that Snoke is now gone, and that Luke is dead (and, as a Force ghost, mentions that he was wrong in TLJ). That's it. Those are the only things in TLJ that have any bearing on TRoS at all. As a matter of fact, if you cut just a few minutes out of TRoS (the text scroll, the opening sequence with Kylo finding Palpatine, and the bit where Luke says he was wrong), then you can basically just replace TLJ with an almost entirely different story, retaining only the facts (established by TFA and TRoS) that Rey has found Luke, that Luke has to die by the film's en...