A few days before The Force Awakens premiered, I was listening to the Star Wars theme and said to my sister “Hey, what if The Force Awakens DOESN’T start off with this music and the traditional text crawl? …Okay that is never ever going to happen. Heads would roll if that happened.” Or something like that. So from where I’m standing, yes, all Star Wars episodes need to start off with the traditional crawl and music. It’s just too ingrained into the series at this point. Though I guess that suggestion earlier that they could mix it up so that the starry background isn’t actually a starry background could be a neat way to change it up without incurring too much Fanboy Rage.