Funny thing is when I tell someone that Rey and Finn stealing the Millennium Falcon and flying through the desert and even inside a crashed Star Destroyer is different from how the escape from Tatooine played out in STAR WARS they don’t want to hear that shit.
We can apply your post to a great many things in TFA.
Besides the fact it plays on the planet, it has so many references you could say it’s almost a 1:1 shot-by-shot remake of the Falcon’s escape from the DS (I think someone also posted a gif depicting this).
Reference to Luke’s journey, the reason the PT itself exists: to show us how Anakin and Luke were alike, yet different. We already knew he had a robotic hand since ROTJ (which was shown exactly for the same reason), so he kind of had to tell us how it did happen 😄
That’s true but it didn’t necessarily have to happen by the hands of a Sith Lord in the second movie to which our hero defeats him in the third one in front of Palpatine.
Right, but for Luke and Anakin journeys to mirror the way I said, it necessarily had to.
A Jedi finds a Force Sensitive on a desert planet and takes him off world to train in the ways of the Force
Other references to Luke’s journey.
It’s still less original than what happens in TFA regarding Rey being noticed as a Force Sensitive.
TFA had no reason to make Rey’s journey to Luke’s, though, so it’s fine.
This Jedi is then killed later in the film by a Sith Lord in front of our hero/s
Award ceremony at the end (not really a plot point but an overt parallel nonetheless)
No, a character death is an actual plot point. The way in which he dies would be a visual reference. Also I even said the Award Ceremony wasn’t a plot point so it’s a bit redundant to point that out.
Except for the “NOOO” 😄 visual reference, it didn’t affect the plot the same way, so I’m not sure it’s actually rehashed: Luke is still an apprentice and now without a master, Obi-wan is already a Jedi Knight and has no need for more training (actually, he is the one who has to train now).
EDIT: Sorry, I have to go to dinner now, but I’ll come back later to reply you.