Lt. Hija said:

And the latest I heard about the basic story premise of TFA is that the Alliance wasn't all that victorious as the Special Edition of ROJ led us to believe, especially with its Coruscant revolution party (I always thought that the Coruscant team just won the superbowl and the party merely coincided with the defeat of the Emperor at the Battle of Endor - LOL).

Assuming that the SE of ROJ would constitute a continuity obstacle to TFA, then the reconstitution of the theatrical version (and its subsequent release) would already be one of the things we should be grateful for to TFA.

The Star Wars Aftermath novel (which is canon) starts off with this scene. Basically immediately after the camera wipe in SE RoTJ, imperial forces come in and crash the party.

If I recall correctly, Graham Chapman then turns to the reader and announces that this is all very silly, and that the next person caught acting silly towards the empire will have him to answer to.