Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Some more thoughts, some of which were brought up by talking to C at fencing.

To my great amusement, when the family came round on Boxing Day The Force Awakens was one of the topics of discussion. The Uncle who got me the Hexbug asked if I'd seen it and I said no, and he said 'how do you feel about JJ Abrams's films?' and I explained with my usual rant, he said I wouldn't like The Force Awakens. Girl cousin stood up for the film.

To everyone's great amusement, after I came back from the film the first thing I said to my uncle was 'you were right.' Girl cousin's response was 'yeah, but there wasn't any lens flare'. My family are my people ;)

And there wasn't any lens flare, and they did a very good job of mixing the visual and physical SFX to make things look a lot more real than the prequels did.

General note - I love the new kids, both the actors and the characters.

( Some discussion of our new leading trio )

Of course, all that doesn't really help the feeling of deja vu with The Force Awakens. ( Other things that don't help )

I'm actually completely cool with what they do with Han and Leia, ( the other Musketeer not so much. )

The whole First Order thing makes George Lucas look restrained. ( C at fencing made a very good point )

And now I bitch about the big end fight. I have two kinds objections, ( Star Wars mythology objections )

( More basic fighting issues )

The whole character of Kylo Ren doesn't quite work for me. ( Spoilers follow. )

( A lot of my problems might be solved (or aggravated) by where the plot goes next )