Love them or hate them, both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi received extremely positive reviews from critics (they scored 93% and 91% on Rotten Tomatoes), while a lot of fans did actually enjoy them. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, on the other hand, has 52%, appears to be incredibly divisive, and actually ended up underperforming at the box office.

Since its release, the backlash from fans has been significant, and it's clear that a lot of them simply didn't appreciate the way the Skywalker Saga wrapped up. That was despite a great deal of fan-service from director J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Chris Terrio, and it probably doesn't help that original helmer Colin Trevorrow's ideas leaked online and, well, were much better!

Now, Daisy Ridley has opened up about the response, and it sounds like it hasn't been easy.



"It's changed film by film honestly, like 98% it's so amazing, this last film it was really tricky. January was not that nice. It was weird, I felt like all of this love that we'd sort of been shown the first time around, I was like 'Where's the love gone?' I watched the documentary, the making-of, this week, and it's so filled with love; and I think it's that tricky thing of when you're part of something that is so filled with love and then people...You know, everyone's entitled to not like something but it feels like it's changed slightly. I think in general that's because social media and what have you."



There's certainly a lot of very toxic fans out there, but the response to The Rise of Skywalker really can't be blamed on them, especially when it's clear from the reviews that this film split opinions right down the middle. Some loved it, of course, but the finale simply didn't live up to what came before and, in the eyes of many, wasn't the ending this beloved series of films deserved.

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