Unlike Rogue One, the script did not have the originality to find a sensible alternative plot.
The Japanese original had a bunch of bandits as foes - plausible. Rogue One had sections of a well-organised Resistance. This has a scattering of unlikely individuals, who for some reason get involved in an entirely local matter.
I also found a lot of it silly - ploughing using a horse-like animal, in a society with advances spacecraft.
And there was a grimy look to a lot of it. Only by making the villains irrationally bad could one feel for the heroic characters, and they were not that heroic.
It was not a waste of time. And I fancy I can guess what part two will be about. But I'd not expect it to have much impact.
The Japanese original had a bunch of bandits as foes - plausible. Rogue One had sections of a well-organised Resistance. This has a scattering of unlikely individuals, who for some reason get involved in an entirely local matter.
I also found a lot of it silly - ploughing using a horse-like animal, in a society with advances spacecraft.
And there was a grimy look to a lot of it. Only by making the villains irrationally bad could one feel for the heroic characters, and they were not that heroic.
It was not a waste of time. And I fancy I can guess what part two will be about. But I'd not expect it to have much impact.