Here on my thoughts and I hope you find them interesting.
Each Film of the Trilogy on it's own: I honestly do enjoy The Force Awakens, yes it's pretty much just A New Hope but it's still a fun film though I think the third act was rather weak. The Last Jedi I Strongly dislike for reasons I've already covered so I won't repeat myself on it. I will only say that I feel the new characters were poorly written, TLJ's Luke is Luke in name only, Rey is barely a character in the film and the First Order is turned into a joke that make the villains from the SW parody Spaceballs look threatening. And Rise of Skywalker I reserving full judgement on until I see it in full but from what I have seen and read I'm not really that encouraged by it.
The Trilogy as a Whole: IMO, this trilogy is a bloody mess. Not only was there no clear goal from the start but it also kept rendering itself pointless. TLJ rendered most of Awakens build up pointless and ROS pretty much rendered the entirety of TLJ pointless while TLJ's ending rendered ROS pointless. It makes trying to watch the Trilogy as a whole rather hard to enjoy because of how disjointed it all is, at least for me it is.
As a Sequel to the Original Trilogy: For me, the whole DST is just a hollow retread of the Original Trilogy. It's the same basic plot with the same basic outcome with minor alterations, weaker characters and favors spectacle over substance. But what really bugs me about TDST is that how it renders the Original Trilogy pointless as nothing that happened in TOT matters in the end. The Skywalker's and Solo's are dead, Palpatine survived so Vader's sacrifice was meaningless and New Republic was completely destroyed so with the F&F Orders destroyed the galaxy is likely going to descend into complete chaos as there is no central authority to help keep order.
As a Sequel to the Prequel Trilogy: I know this seems like a strange thing to include but speaking as someone who actually likes the Prequels despite their flaws and as ROS supposedly is suppose to bring the whole Skywalker Saga to a close comparisons to TPT must be made. Honestly, if anything, TDST made me appreciate the Prequels all the more. With the Prequels, I feel that the story is actually really good it's just that the dialogue is really weak cause as fans of the novels of the Prequels have stated the story there really works it's just more refined and as the Clone Wars 3D series showed, which shares a LOT of ideas with the Prequels and, lets be honest, barely changes the characters there is good here. Again, they aren't with out their flaws but I feel the Prequels are a much better the TDST and I honestly think they make Star Wars a stronger series because of their inclusion.
How it Compares to The Thrawn Trilogy: While there's a whole Expanded Universe to compare it to TTT is the Original Sequel Trilogy and there for, I feel, is the one that TDST should be the most directly compared too. Pretty sure you can all guess where this is going so I'll keep it short. From a plot standpoint, from a character standpoint, a villain standpoint, action standpoint and as a Sequel to both TOT and TPT TTT is the better story. TTT is often credited as the story that revitalized Star Wars' popularity and next to TOT, Knights of the Old Republic and The Prequels is the most influential story in Star Wars. By contrast, TDST is one of the most divisive stories ever and one that I doubt will be seen in a positive light with ROS's ending.
But these are just my thoughts and I would like to know what everyone else thinks?
P.S. As always this is just for fun so please keep all comments polite and civil. I just want to get an idea of everyone's thoughts on the series.
