It’s a bad rehash, that’s my bet. JJ Abraham’s is a director/producer who leans towards “cool” stuff and hardly towards what works, or makes that “cool” stuff work.

For instance: we have another masked villain. Only that now we don’t know why on Earth he wears a mask. He, as well as Vader, betrayed his master and killed all the Jedi. But he’s even more “badass” than Vader, killing his father and making theatrical stances, cause it’s kuuuhl

We have an Empire, which builds a superweapon even more powerful than the Death Star! But how? In ANH you got it right from the beginning: a powerful, opressive organisation, with the economical power of a Galactic Government against a band of rebels hardly funded. How could a band of imperial outlaws build a machine sized as a planet?

It’s as crazy as trying to make a movie about a gang of Neonazis who build an nuke in their garage.

The idea of the First Order is lame. “the resistance” is lame. Killing han solo, is lame.

The third trilogy should have been about a war against a receeding Empire towards the Core. Instead we are almost exactly where the galaxy was in ANH, and we’re told “there’s a new republic, but it doesn’t count”…Han married Leia, but now they’re divorced…Luke had an Academy, but now he hasn’t it anymore…