The way they killed Han, didn’t reunite Han, Leia and Luke, making Han a deadbeat dad (backtracking on his character development in the OT), having Leia hug Rey, who she had just met, instead of Chewie, having Rey beat Kylo in a lightsaber duel and then resist his mind probe, having Finn be a Stormtrooper Janitor…the list could go on. Rey piloting the Falcon better than Han despite never having left the planet and having no clear reason to know how to fly at all (she was essentially a homeless desert scavenger working for scraps of food), Rey fixing the Falcon better than Han/Chewie.

The way that Abrams works with IPs is that, in addition to employing mystery boxes, he makes a checklist of all the big events/plot points of previous versions/episodes/instalments and then incorporates them into his script but BIGGER or BETTER! So we end up with a Death Star but BIGGER! We have Luke but BETTER! (Rey). Etc etc. it’s shit. Add that to Kennedy’s insistence on inclusion and diversity regardless of story implications (the fascist regime is remarkably gender and ethnically diverse) and you have a charmless shitefest that pleases no one except boxtickers and the slackjawed.