Blame TLJ for poor Solo performance?!?!?!

No, I assure, you ARE one of them people.

Excellent post lordbishop my only quibble is that they weren't even a beginning: JJ in his infinite wisdom decided he didn't want to tell how we got from VI to VII so we have a story that starts in the middle and has now ended before it even began.

No, you're totally wrong. You see, TLJ had an idea, and everything in that movie, including the casino planet, served that idea. Also, whether it "connects well" or not: it's not an issue. TLJ is a separate, wholesome work of art and it should be regarded on its own merit. Hell, does ROTJ "connect well" with ESB? Who cares, it was crap. And Rogue one was a convoluted mess. The idea was lame: who cares about how they stole the plans. Why didn't they think up a whole new mission and tell a refreshing, independent story? And the characters and their motivations were so poorly developed. You complain about the casino planet in TLJ, which by the way had it's purpose in the message that TLJ was trying to send across, but what about the interrogating octopus monster in Rogue one? What was the purpose of that scene?! You're totally wrong.

No, Solo is anything but a new story, it's a rehash and a prequel: exactly the kind I want to see no more.

Oh, and I assume you can back that up with some solid data? Because, I happen to know that all reliable evidence indicates that the vast majority of people liked TLJ. In fact, audiences in the vast majority 90%ish either liked or loved this movie.
Comscore/Screen Engine polled audience members and found an 89% positive score.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-rotten-tomatoes-metacritic-imdb-users-cinemascore-posttrak-1202228837/

On PostTrak audiences surveyed scores it a rare "5 out of 5 stars" and 79% rated it "Definitely Recommend", while 89% gave general approval.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/the-last-jedi-star-wars-opening-box-office-records-1202228444/

CinemaScore that polled actual audience members gave it an A rating.

https://twitter.com/cinemascore/status/942037792544251904

SurveyMonkey polled people ranging from those who had just recently seen it to those that had seen it several days prior and found an 89% positive score (combination of those that said they "liked" or "loved" it). Those that described themselves as "hardcore fans" were just as likely to give a positive score, but were nearly twice as likely to say they "loved" it. So basically everyone overwhelmingly liked it. But the more hardcore fans liked it more.

http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/last-jedi-poll/#rfT9vDnPiiqT

Fans have also been voting with their wallets, with TLJ becoming the 2nd fastest movie to reach $500mil domestic of all time. It has also surpassed $1billion worldwide. While some pointed to its Christmas weekend drop (all movies suffer in the runup to Christmas as people travel and prepare for Christmas Day) it actually surpassed studio estimates for that weekend by 4.5%.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=studioest&yr=2017&wknd=51&p=.htm

It also had the biggest domestic box office take of all of 2017 despite only being out for 2-3 weeks, out-earning blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Beauty and the Beast that were in theaters for 2-4 months:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2017&p=.htm

It has surpassed $1bil in worldwide box office and it hasn't even come out in China yet. Current projections are for it to finish around $1.5-$1.7billion, which would put at approximately 4th-6th highest grossing movie of all time:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

And of course, critics themselves agreed with audiences and approved of the movie at roughly a 90% rate as well (ranging from 86-93%).

The only place left anywhere that doesn't agree with all this evidence is websites likes Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and MetaCritic, where random anonymous users on the internet can easily make multiple accounts and spam the site with negative reviews. And the evidence that this happened is very strong, despite Rotten Tomatoes predictably claiming there's nothing wrong: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/12/20/the-curious-case-of-the-last-jedi-and-its-rotten-tomatoes-audience-score[/url] [url]https://deadline.com/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-rotten-tomatoes-metacritic-imdb-users-cinemascore-posttrak-1202228837/[/url] [url]https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/18/16792184/star-wars-the-last-jedi-rotten-tomatoes-review-bomb

...but I suppose you have a more reliable and verifiable evidence, of course.