I agree with most of what bwood said about this film. I'm just going to call this J.J. Abrams version of Return of the Jedi. He made this to appease the backlash from TLJ and that's where this failed in a major way. He could've still tried to appease those that didn't like TLJ and took elements from that film to move the series in a good direction. This was just more retread stuff.

There's more I want to add but I gotta watch it again tonight. My major issue is with Kathleen Kennedy and Disney. They should've had a plan on how they wanted this Trilogy to go and here it seems like they didn't and went with knee jerk reactions to the previous film(s) backlash. As much as we can all like or dislike the prequels, at least Lucas had a clear vision of where he was going with those films.

Also, bwood didn't lie about the Rey parentage thing. I groaned like a motherfucker