In A New Hope, all of a sudden there was sound in space.
Not the first SF film to do that.
In Empire, all of a sudden you could fly to other planets without the need of hyperspace.
Not the first SF film to do that. Besides, if you consider each system named to be a planetary system rather than a star system, all those planets could easily be circling the same star and no laws of physics are broken.
In Return of the Jedi, all of a sudden a moon sized space station can be flown through under the span of a couple minutes, besting even an explosion.
They aren’t flying faster than light so what’s your point?
In The Phantom Menace, all of a sudden every star system in the galaxy could meet in one room.
This is just silly - not SF at all and not the first council of many civilizations seen.
In Clones, all of a sudden you can erase the existence of a planet and no one will notice.
Well, as this was just in the Jedi Archives, this is hardly SF related in any way.
In Sith, all of a sudden the galaxy will just unanimously join a new Empire led by a scary guy making contradictory claims despite a prior civil war having just ended.
Now you are stretching things. It is based on 1930’s Germany and many other countries that have let a dictator/emperor take over.
Star Wars physics have been contradicting themselves since day one.
Well, as a lot of those had nothing to do with physics, that really isn’t a point. Shall we talk about how Star Trek constantly broke the laws of physics? Don’t pretend any hollywood SF franchise or film was truly faithful to physics. They take short cuts and break the rules all the time. Constantly. That does not make Star Wars some other genre besides science fiction. But even so, most do a pretty good job of not being too obvious or providing some in-universe explanation to gloss over the errors. TFA didn’t even bother to do that.
Besides, that is just the worst of Abrams many failings in TFA that I feel eclipse those of Lucas in the prequels. Lucas’s main failings were in dialog and directing actor. Abrams main failings are in story and editing and that is far more serious as far as I’m concerned.