Maybe not visual effects related per se, but I’m not sure how i feel about some of the design concepts in TFA.

The x wings and tie fighters were lifted straight from the originals and mcquarries drawings and i have no problem with that.

But some of the other things seemed out of place to me.

The armored creature that the scavenger was sitting on when he had netted BB8 had an odd look to me. It seemed less Star Wars and more Mech Warrior to me.

I wish i had seen what Han Solo’s freighter looked like as what little we did see was non-descript. But I get an Aliens vibe from it for some reason. Or maybe it just seems like your run of the mill generic large sized space ship. Star Wars influenced so many sci - fi designs of other franchises in the 80s and 90s so i guess its no surprise. But I dont want Star Wars to fall into the trap of becoming a weak rip off of itself.