Really????
I loved the directing, but I thought the writing was just terrible.
There was so much political correctness. This is clearly Disney's influence. Whereas George Lucas (I guess an INTP) had great ideas inspired in paganism and Margulis theories of symbiosis, mitochondria, etc, Disney didn't "understand" all that and the only things it presents new are politically correct ideas.
..... like the black guy, who was clearly meant to empathize with black audiences because of ESCAPING SLAVERY, and the young white girl to make feminists happy, and Kylo Ren, who is clearly a junkie kid who makes his parents desperate to save him and in the end prefers to chose drugs to having a relationship with his father; to even how obvious it was that the Empire represented the German Nazi's (this was also apparent in the original trilogy but now it's just too obvious...they even made the soldiers raise their arms - so much facepalm).
And there were many plot holes for the moment, and so much copying from episode 4. I totally lost interest in the movie the moment they brought up the idea of the Death Star again. And the rehashed idea, again, that all characters must be related to previous characters (Kylo Ren son of Han Solo, and Rey the daughter of Luke Skywalker). I had understood the moment I saw Han Solo and Chewbacca start to place those detonators that Han Solo was going to meet his son there...it was apparent because the scenery was just the same as the battle between Luke and Darth Vader in episode 5. And Rey is clearly going to be trained by Luke in episode 8, much as Yoda trained Luke.
Oh and Rey touches Luke's saber and has visions of the past? This is from where....Harry Potter?? And the evil hologram...isn't that also an idea from Harry Potter?? Oh, btw, Adam Driver in the role of villain was not believable once sec. Not after I saw him as a lazy boyfriend in HBO Girls. And the story didn't help. He's just a teenage boy that seems to pick evil just to tease his parents. Nor him nor the hologram were scary as Darth Vader and the Emperor in episodes 4-5-6.
So all in all, there's nothing new with this movie and I don't think we can expect it for the new two. I think people are just happy about the movie because it's not fucked up the way episodes 1-3 were. And I did like to be in the cinema, I was entertained.
PS: One idea that I thought was actually original and interesting to be explored is that, whereas Anakin Skywalker was a "good" guy and had to fight his tendencies to go to the dark side, Kylo Ren is the opposite: "bad" guy trying to fight off tendencies to be "good".