seeing the trailers of ROTS and how much the resistances has grown,
the galaxy didnt give up at all
Because they retconned that ending out with the quickness, because as I said logically there's nowhere else to go but with the FO taking back total control and remaking the Empire. So Abrams retconned that just like, apparently, he's going to retcon
Rey's lineage being one of nobodies .
But Rian didn't change anything from what TFA started.... what could Rian could have realistically done to not rehash the OT dynamics when the previous movie already shows us the First Order is a gigantic military force that utterly destroyed 5 planets and The New Republic
Again: I don't say he started it. I said he completed it. He could've had the remnants of the New Republic rise up and start building their own proper army, he could've said that most of the FO's army got destroyed with Starkiller so the NR and FO would've been on equal footing, he could've said that Kylo killed the majority but not all of Luke's students, with the rest going into hiding and Luke & Rey could've gone off to rally them, he could've had Finn not be totally fucking useless, made Poe an idiot, used the Knights of Ren, etc. Instead the Resistance was reduced to one ship, the NR is actually dead (so who the hell is ruling the galaxy now?), the FO apparently has limitless resources despite having LESS territory than the Empire (nominally because the film just treats them as being the Empire), Snoke is killed off and the final boss is a guy Rey has kicked the ass of twice. Imagine if Vader and the Emperor died in a shuttle crash so Boba Fett ends up being the final boss of Return of the Jedi. That's how laughable the idea of Kylo being the final boss is, dude is far too much a loser to be a threat, yet the FO apparently just keeps winning because the good guys are even more incompetent.
Like I keep saying Abrams is the one who got the ball rolling so it's his fault too, but Rian made it his mission to complete the circle and totally reset everything to the ANH status quo. With the way things ended in TLJ, IX should be about Rey and friends collecting Force Kids to hopefully train and defeat the FO sometime in the future. But instead they just retconned everything they could and we're getting something that really just shows how incredibly inept the Disney SW era has been.