Was wondering why so many people missed this or wanted it spelled out to them so quickly on the first movie of the new trilogy. It's a lot that have to set up and a lot that will be explained in the upcoming films. Seems like folks wanted everything spoon fed to them from the very beginning. We didn't learn everything in ANH either.

As far as people thinking ANH and TFA are the same film. It's kinda hard to set up a trilogy without the obvious showing us the characters and having them all meet up and set out to complete a goal. Hell, look at Fellowship and the first Hobit movie. Both trilogy's and both similar movies from the start.

Anyway, good explanation. It was a damn fine Star Wars movie.