I liked it!!!..???

That’s kind of how I feel. Emphatically I guess I kind of liked it.

Is this film a sacrificial baffle? Is its sole purpose to set up the rest of the trilogy? Is its only job to bring us back into this galaxy? The characters are good…not Han, Luke and Leia good but they’re likable. At least some portion of my overall general positive outlook on TFA is due to the fact that there is hope for a director to come in and take the characters JJ established and make a better movie.

But then again…we may have to come to grips with the fact that attempts at additional sagas may prove futile.

I have a feeling that in retrospect, a handful of one-off standalone films may tower over any and all future sagas.