Lord Haseo said:
You’re missing the point. Luke blowing up the Death Star shouldn’t have happened. Rey beating Kylo Ren probably shouldn’t have happened too BUT there are at least two reasons which at least partially explain why she was even able to survive. Luke blowing up the Death Star happens just because he’s special just like Rey beat Kylo Ren because she’s special.

With all due respect, I think you are the one missing the point. Luke didn’t beat Vader–he beat the Death Star. He blew up Tarkin.

Sure they built Luke’s character up a bit but there as nothing that was shown in the film that showed he had the kind of potential to blow up the Death Star which was established to be a shot so hard targeting computers in a Universe where interstellar travel is possible wasn’t even accurate enough to blow the thing up.

“Use the Force Luke”. It didn’t come out of nowhere. If he had suddenly gained so much power at the end of the film for no reason, it would have been a bad script. It wasn’t. Luke’s character wanted to go with Obi-Wan and learn the ways of the Force. That was a theme from the very beginning of the film. Not just with the good guys, but with Vader on the Death Star too. “The Force” is repeated over and over again.

You guys seriously underestimate how good the original Star Wars script is, how carefully thought out it was, and how well it was executed on screen. The Force Awakens script does not even compare. You can feel the movie was fun anyways, and yeah I agree with you to some extent. But I think the story itself was lazy and poorly executed. You can’t have a lazy and poorly executed story and then just say “it’s a movie, have fun!” The original Star Wars didn’t do that. No other great film does that.

They are great for a reason, and TFA is mediocre for that same reason.