10 - The movie tries to harken back to the original trilogy by including tons of fan service, with recognizable characters and places that are almost identical to those places in the OT, so much to the point it’s more up in your face than being endearing.
You make it sound like it’s a bad thing; but if a movie set directly before ANH wasn’t like that, it wouldn’t work.
I don’t know about that. I prefer RO over TFA any day, but I have to admit there’s a lot of damning evidence to show that both are guilty of this. A lot of people have complained of the ANH imagery used in TFA, and how obvious it was. And there have been people who said similar things of RO (like RedLetterMedia, if you focus on the actual good points they had on RO).
Force awakens had characters with personalities
Rogue one is only liked because it is more original…but strip that all away and rogue one isn’t a story but only liked because of darth vader
Rogue one is very similar to return of the jedi as they are both undeservingly praised for hollow things that aren’t that impressive
For ROTJ it was the throne room scene…don’t really see the appeal of that scene
For rogue one it was the darth vader sequences. which are to be fair much better than the entirety of return of the jedi but also not good enough for it to save the movie