Give it another viewing...this time knowing what happens...I think you might start to see that it was actually very good story arch for him to start to question the veneration of the Jedi order.
When we got home from watching it we turned on the TV and ROTJ was on so we watched the end of that. Went through a quick viewing of TFA and decided to give The Last Jedi another viewing. I thought maybe it was the frame of mind I was in for the original viewing. Nope, this movie is colossally bad. Just took a blind poll(except for me) among the 5 of us that saw it over the weekend. Average score = 3.4.
I really enjoyed TFA, we have probably watched it as a family a dozen times since it first came out. JJ Abrams basically lofted a game winning alley oop up right in front of the rim. All Rian Johnson had to do was throw it down. Instead he seemed to jump up and plucked the ball out of the air then proceed to lob a full court shot at his own basket, missing badly and hitting a beer vendor in the face instead.
***Spoilers Below***
Some of the things we are subjected to in this movie:
1. Poe making a prank call to General Hux ala Bart Simpson. Might as well have asked for Mr. Rotch, first name Mike.
2. Bombs FALLING out of a resistance bomber onto a Imperial Dreadnaught.
3. Poe Dameron getting slapped down repeatedly and kept in the dark by Admiral Purple hair and Princess Leia.
4. A ridiculous cross galaxy conference call to MAZ for advice on finding a hacker that wasn't needed anyways and who just so happened to be on the payroll of the first order. If they could make this call why didn't they call someone for help?
5. A slow motion chase through space while a rebel ship slowly runs out of gas, reminded me of the episode of seinfeld where Kramer and the Car salesman try to drive as far as they can before running out of gas.
6. Poe sending Finn on a worthless mission after Finn tries to desert
7. More Poe getting slapped down more
8. Luke milking a random sea monster and drinking the blue(yes I got that reference) milk
9. Luke spear fishing with an impossibly long dangly spear. BTW how did he get the fish off the end? Did he ask Rey to use the force to do it?
10. Luke tossing the lightsaber over his shoulder(symbolic of how the director views the original trilogy?)
11. Useless mission to evil capitalist casino planet to free space horses and accomplish nothing.
12. Another appearance by Del Toro in a sci fi movie that he lends no value to. (seriously why does this guy keep popping up in movies? Does he work cheap?)
13. Zero answers to the two main questions from TFA
14. Princess Leia taking the stupidest space flight since the original Superman movie
15. Luke projecting himself across the galaxy for a faux lightsaber fight before dying of embarrassment. In all fairness I doubt his delaying action was needed as the first order would have screwed up the assault on the salt mine given enough time.
16. Thor and Loki saving the last remnants of the people of Asgard from the clutches of the first order.
Yes I get that this is supposed to be a new direction and tough luck on those of us who were hoping for something more from Luke, Leia and company. However if the director and people in charge of this mess were so sure that their new direction was golden, why didn't they let Rian start out with a totally separate trilogy? Why the need to ride the coat tails of Solos and Skywalkers only to dump on their legacy? I think we know the answer to that.
