I think the point of Luke being some grimy old man who drinks milk straight from the alien tiddy is to tell the obsessed nerds to get over the original trilogy. No one is perfect, and your childhood icon turned out to be an asshole, that kind of thing.

Yeah the casino scene sucked but it wasn't actually that long, I think it felt like longer because the movie had pretty bad pacing

The entire disney trilogy had a lack of vision and planning. The Force Awakens felt like the Disney execs going, "hey, star wars movies make lots of money" so they made the most inoffensive movie possible, then just told Ryan Johnson to do his thing. Then they made the mistake of listening to the people who were mad about the women in TLJ so they shat out ROS. Idk if things would be better if Johnson directed the third movie because he did leave a shit load to deal with, but at least it probably wouldn't have just been pure fanservice before actually being a good movie

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