Just got back from Ep 9... and sure, it's a stinker... but I gotta say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Considering that TLJ was shitshow with Johnson gleefully burning down every plot thread he was handed without a thought in his head as to how it would all work out in the finale... this could have been worse. It's a frantic mess, doesn't hold up to any logical scrutiny... but somehow I didn't hate it like I did TLJ.
This all reminds me of a segment from that self-help classic "Mr T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool". He did a segment called "recouping"... A kid walking down the street falls over, looks like a dipshit and some dude laughs at him... That was The Last Jedi... falling down and looking like a dipshit. In order to "recoup", next time the kid falls down he rolls it into a cornball breakdancing routine... while exceptional as fuck, it was a slight improvement over just falling flat on your face... So Rise of Skywalker is a goofball breakdancing routine by a 9-year-old boy... which is a backhanded compliment no doubt, but a compliment nonetheless and certainly more positive than anything I can say about The Last Jedi.