i think the director of the last jedi do what needful in order to expand the story to be much greater than this. to me, the force awaken has already had so much problem, difficult to expand each of character n has many flaw..... so in the last jedi, they hae to kill some character in order to give some space for major character to expand. afterall continuing plot from the force awaken means we gonna see the same type of star wards. the last jedi try to clear out this problem, so they can turn out into more refresh new idea. cptain phasma gone so we can say goodbye to her. snoke die... so this can give focus to kylo ren n more interestingly how he can ve a bad empire by acting solo. usually, major villain has its boss.... but this time major villain hikself is the boss and bad ass. we also can see.... this episode, kylo ren ugly helmet was removed for sure. i think we need to give some faith for this new director to show his passion on star wars as he claimed he was a fan since childhood