Fang Zei said:

I'd be happy if he didn't do any homages at all. We had enough of that in the prequels, like Anakin and Obi-Wan walking into that bar on Coruscant.

The only connective tissue I really care about is the style of the filmmaking itself. We already know this will be shot in the same format as the OT, but I hope Abrams and Mindel are able to make it fit with the overall aesthetic established in those movies.

My thoughts exactly. Make a film that takes us on an adventure, not one that panders to pop culture references or winks at the audience. Lucas spent four films revisiting Star Wars77. That's four films too many.