Right, I’m ready to start talking about TLJ! (Under a cut of course.) There’s one thing about this movie that no-one else seemed to like, but I did:
Finn and Rose fail in their mission, yeah (through no fault of their own) but I think the movie’s point there was that even the small victory they achieved by smashing the casino was something, something important. Those slave children at the end, they had hope because of what Finn and Rose did on their planet.
Some battles you can’t win, because there are terrible people out there. But you can still destroy a symbol of apathy, and hurt some war profiteers, and free some tortured animals, and make the lives of abused children even a tiny bit better. Some days that’s enough, because it has to be.