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I enjoyed it, and I don't even like the franchise that much. V and IV are the only really good ones to me. VI and III are okay, and I-II are abominable.

I think that the new characters are good, and the old characters weren't even really necessary. Aside from the oldies providing some needed context, I felt like the new ones could have carried the movie without.

8.5/10, will see again in theatres.

So you didn't get what they were doing with the film?

If I asked you to name the movie where a droid gets uploaded with secret plans, gets shot out of a ship and lands on a desert planet, only to be picked up by a farmer who then tries to return the droid to the person it belongs to.. what movie am I describing? I or VII? There is no difference except the old characters have replaced the wise characters in the first film. Hell they even squeezed in a Yoda type character as a bonus, big eyes and all. The big surprise to me about the plot of this film is that instead of taking things in a new direction, they just rehashed, almost scene for scene, the first movie. Joseph Campbell on fleek.
Yes, I got it. Just thought that the autonomous elements/characters were strong enough to not need to rely so heavily on the old films.