I am surprised it wasn’t played by a woman and the back story is he is a transgenedered.
SW is dead to me. They invalidated the entire sextology with “the farce awakens” (aka “New Hope 2.0”) and then invalidated the Jedi Order and the good it stood for in “lost jedi.” Let us not forget Mary Sue Rey who was just standing around when the force was whammed into her, pre-trained, just ‘cause.
It lost its thread and I hope and pray Disney loses its shorts on its 4 billion — they haven’t made it up yet and the overall viewship is dropping precipitously as everyone else sees the bad plot reuse and insipid story lines.
and let’s not forget that it is a thinly veiled platform for social justice. What’s next, the homo sexual robot romance between R2D2 and C3PO?
When Disney bought the franchise, they turned it from "In 'n Out" to "MacDonald's", IMHO. I had trouble with the "new" Storm Troopers in "Farce". That guy did NOT look like Bobba Fett, who I thought was the model for the cloned troops. Then the anti-male, SJW tripe in "Lost Jedi". No wonder Luke self-exiled to the mountains!
I did like "Rogue 1", it had more of the old Spielberg/Lucas feel than any of the other movies since "Return of the Jedi". Plus, it was a better run-up to "New Hope" than the POS passed off as "Revenge of the Sith".
Unfortunately, don't expect Disney to lose money on the series. With their endless stream of merchandising tie-ins and toys, games and other goodies for kids to hound their parents into buying, they'll make more than their money back in the long run.
In "Star Wars" Luke Skywalker was the bestest and feircest jedi ever without even knowing what the force is, like Rey was in Force Awakens. So that's a big difference. In the "Empire Strikes Back" Luke gets trained by Yoda and still gets his ass handed to him by Darth Vader. I'm guessing in "Last Jedi" Rey is so powerful that she reverses time and reanimates the dead or something even more absurd. Woo hoo, You go girl!
Unfortunately, the Prequel Trilogy already did away with the good the Jedi stood for by making them moral nihilists and people so against attachments they actually hate having familial relationships. In fact, you could argue they did away with that as early as Return of the Jedi when they had Obi Wan pretty much promoting moral relativism.