As a kid who grew up in the OT days and mostly in the "Dark Times" of the mid 80's through the mid 90's the lack of Star Wars on film was frustrating. I even rewatched the 2 ewok movies. Then the prequels were announced and heaven and earth were going to change for the better with those films.... Well 16 years later we can see the prequels were pretty bad. Much worse then we expected after the Ewok in ROTJ debacle. Poor Gary Kurtz,.. Ahem. Anyways when Disney bought LFL and announced new movies I was dubious to say the least. Would we get more bad-slapstick and horrendous dialogue. Man it may have killed Star Wars permanently for me if it had been... While I'm no fan of JJ Abrhams I'll say he actually understood what fans of the OT needed. They needed to relive that nostalgic feel that lacked in the prequels. While PT nods are in the film if you know where to look they didn't get too wrapped up in the previous 2 trilogies backlog of lore except for maybe the want of Vader by Kylo and really who didn't want to be Vader back in the day. Easily my favorite film of 2015 and one of the few physical movies I've purchased in a long time.... ago in a galayx far, fa... ack.. no. No ... just it was good.. a little too mary-sue-ish for 1 of the main cast but we let it slide b/c the rest of the film wasn't so terrible it seemed like a train wreck. -Rez