I wasn’t planning on rewatching TFA any time soon, but last week I got the sudden urge to give it a go. Just to give myself a somewhat different experience from the first time, I turned the colour of my TV all the way down and skipped completely over the Starkiller stuff.

I didn’t expect myself to enjoy the film more than I did the first time around, but I did. I found myself more invested in the characters this time around, and the B&W look really worked wonders for many parts of the film; it lent some of the outdoor scenes a nice Bergman flavour, Snoke looked slightly better in monochrome (emphasis on slightly), it gave everything associated with the First Order a more mechanical aesthetic (which I liked), and it even made Kylo Ren and his lightsaber look more impressive – like the Grim Reaper wielding a medieval longsword.

Overall, I still think this movie rates a 6/10, but only because the Starkiller stuff is an albatross around the film’s neck. The parts of the film aside from that – everything with Rey, Finn, Han, etc. – are worthy of a 7/10.