Well this thread grew in my brief absence (I suppose not a surprise at all).
All I’ll say is I’m with NFB, what TLJ did is exactly what SW needed to not become any other blockbuster franchise.
For me that’s a good thing. It doesn’t copy the OT so much as extend it into the future…obviously. I think if they had changed the formula too much as Dr. Dre appears to be suggesting I think the general audience would have been lost and the hard core fans would have lost it even worse.