I, personally, had major difficulties going in to TFA.
I was nowhere near as prepared for post-ROTJ activity as I had thought I might be (a problem for the above stated reasons.)
I was not at all prepared for a "second act" sort of episode much darker than ESB. I believe I appreciated ROTS more than most fans and it was because I had made a considerable effort to brace myself for a great tragedy.
I find PC for the sake of PC to be extremely distracting and disturbing. Billions of people around the world have been conditioned since they were small children to HATE Western, Christian values. Pandering to these blind, vicious passions in global entertainment contributes to consigning ALL OF US to totalitarian agonies beyond imagining.(not to mention that it's piss-poor awful storytelling.)
I could never be a fan or watch a series like Breaking Bad.
I confess I don't know exactly where they intend to take these plotlines(or storylines.) These are very clever screenwriters and maybe they will subvert expectations.
To story development, Kylo breaking bad is, at least to me, a very great problem. I didn't need to see him kill Han, I was thinking "Uh-oh" 5 minutes into the movie when, with no apparent need or purpose(not even an unjustifiable need or evil purpose), he coldly and contemptuously ordered the village slaughtered. BY FAR the single worst thing in STAR WARS was Anakin killing the younglings. In the OT, we never saw Vader kill a noncombatant. A minute before he strangled Antilles that captain was ordering his men to kill Vader and his troops, and he was still resisting by lying in a matter that could cost hundreds of thousands of troops. We don't know if he personally ordered the burning of the homestead. He spoke with contempt of the "technological terror" as though he knew of and preferred an alternate method for order that might not involve killing billions of defenseless innocents in a destructive conflict. He personally did violence to his own officers in ESB. My point is not that Vader could be excused of the heinous crimes he was assisting(he paid for them with his life), but that we never saw him personally commit the most heinous deeds against helpless non-combatants out of cold dismissive contempt. This made the "There's still good in him" seem not entirely impossible. More importantly, it left a little bit of room for me to accept a possibility of his redemption. I could also tolerate Luke's effort to save his father.
I don't watch local TV news. Too often they put up things like family members trying assist vicious punks and psychopaths who don't deserve such consideration. If I was the lawyer character in CAPE FEAR, it would have been the shortest feature in cinema history. "So, you've come here to threaten and perhaps perpetrate horrible violence against me and my family? MMM, okay"...*BLAM*..."Send me a postcard from hell and let me know how that plan is going."
I can't stand the more intense crime series because I can't tolerate the cold viciousness of the criminals and the stupidity of others around them who don't simply kill them and drop them in a hole. I know exactly why the monsters do it. They are vicious psychopaths who want to rid themselves of any vestige of humanity that might interfere with their sense of power and jollies from doing what we all, underneath it all, know is horrifyingly wrong.
I think the basic characterization of Kylo is great. Worships the head of VADER, wants to be free to unleash his vicious impulses without guilt, loses his cool and thrashes when he doesn't get his way. Nice contrast from cool collected Vader. I just wish I was interested in something more out of him than being put down immediately. I wish I wasn't so annoyed with those who don't try to put him down immediately.
This is the hazard of going so deep and dark in what is, at it's base, a Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers adventure serial.