Everything was explained and built and telegraphed, lol.
The Luke thing especially. Between the power being introduced, Kylo saying, "The effort would kill you," the salt, Luke looking like he did when Kylo knew him, Luke using the destroyed lightsaber and Luke not creating any prints on the ground (ground that was explained by a footstep and the word 'salt' without using up much exposition as others seem to want), the entire thing was there. Some people ITT even said they caught on and apparently didn't like it because it was too obvious.
Everything was explained built and telegraphed in the sense that everything is explained built and telegraphed in every movie. That doesn't mean it was done successfully. The fact that the author feels the need to go to expired EU source material on Twitter to further explain decisions post-mortem tells me there's smoke here. Can you honestly tell me ghost Yoda using force lightning was properly explained and telegraphed? Don't forget, I liked this scene. It's just I can see how some would be irked
As I said in the post you quoted, I also thought the Luke power was telegraphed via the Kylo/Rey stuff. But I can certainly see how many wouldn't. There were simple things that could have been added to the Kylo/Rey stuff that would have improved the telegraphing, a few ideas I came up with off the cuff are posted above, but it's a careful balance the authors have to aim for. This is not black and white, different audiences will expect a different level of commitment before accepting something isn't pulled out of thin air. Clever writing comes from satisfying those people without ruining the surprise, but you'll never satisfy all of them. Some people want things spelled out. Some want Luke to surf in on an X-Wing and force chuck AT-ATs
Are these real complaints that make it a bad movie though? This is the real question. You don't have to like it but saying it was an "AHA PSYKE" moment isn't indicative that it's inherently bad. Putting "aha psyke" in all upper caps doesn't make it inherently bad either. That's pretty much the online version of being louder to pretend your opinion has more weight.
I maintained the posting style used by the poster I quoted. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
I also did not say that psyke moments are inherently bad. I mentioned that I liked both of the scenes Rian is defending with his tweets, although I can fully understand why some people have issues with them. My contention was spelled out in the post you quoted: "A lot of these moments could have been great if some of the others were clipped so the ones that were kept had time to incubate. The movie just wants too hard to keep people guessing and at the same time wraps things up in ways nobody could have guessed. It's bound to annoy anyone whose trying to get into the characters heads and solve things alongside them."
People want different things from movies. Some enjoy the thrill of being surprised and taken for a ride. Some want internal logic and consistency so they can empathize with character plights and solve things alongside them. There's a balance you aim for between these two to ensure you keep both sides happy, but it's a hard mark to hit.
Where I see TLJ going wrong is that the script tries to pull far too many of these sorts of surprises. The more you do this, the more a certain segment of your audience will start to feel duped
