I just ran across this (in fact I haven’t watched it) so I’m not making any judgements about what it says.
http://www.avclub.com/article/time-has-come-pit-rogue-one-and-force-awakens-agai-254577
Star Wars movies are so mythic and overexposed it’s hard to find a nice, quiet, sober critical analysis of them—away from the hubbub of their release spectacles or the weight of the vast lore bearing down on them. Lessons From The Screenplay attempts to do just that in a new video, applying classic screenwriting principles to Rogue One and The Force Awakens in order to determine what works and what doesn’t in the franchise’s latest installments. The answer is: a little bit of both.