Harmy said:

I'm personally not too excited. There were some bits I liked and there were some I didn't. Some of the character moments were nice but in the last shot, it didn't click for me as seeing Han again, I just saw Harrison Ford, I don't know why and Chewie looks really weird too.

And the VFX shots reminded me of this video by MVerta about VFX shots grounded in reality, which was a hallmark of the original movies. The crazy camera moves, while cool, just don't read as reality. It looks sort of incogruent with not only the original movies but, from what we've seen so far, also with the live action in this new movie.

If I could put my finger on the new special effects shots of what they absolutely remind me of, I would say without shadow of a doubt RONALD D MOORE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.

I really really like the new series of Battlestar Galactica but as you have quite rightly pointed out. It's not STAR WARS.

They have tried to tap into that vision that was recently very popular as it's probably the last best successful character driven space opera and decided to give it that documentary style camera angles zooms and so fourth.

Studio executive choice perhaps / Marketing? Not a creative decision but a bit of a copycat move of BSG?

It's Fantasy not sci-fi but grounded in reality but it seems as though that has tipped to a modern alternative and a bit of new direction. Please god though..we need sound in outer space in star wars... I hope they realize the difference between BSG and Star Wars but you look at the old original series of BSG it was a copy of star wars on a smaller budget... Go figure.

This seems to be a copy of NU BSG on a bigger Budget....