Well finally took my son in a blizzard this morning to see the movie, very few people ventured out so the theater Maybe had 20 people, very nice.
I loved it. It felt like star wars. As already stated it realllly pulled elements from ep.4 but has new characters and outcomes. It was nice to see new characters being built up to replace ones that will not be involved anymore.
I did like fin and reys storyline. My gut tells me Rey is Luke's daughter or was a child apprentice of his and he left her on jakku to protect her and hide her from everything, then he went into self imposed exile.
Obviously she will resume Jedi training going forward. Rey clearly has Jedi lineage. I might have missed it, but I almost think the voices in the one trailer of luke talking about the force, "and I have it, and you have it..." is for episode8. I did take a pee break so I might have missed it being said in this episode.
I don't see fin as having the force but see him more as like Han solo as being a strong regular guy type character who happens to find himself in the most important places in the galaxy.
I would love to know why Han solos son becomes obsessed with dark vader Wtf is that? Any theory to what happened
All in all very glad with how it turned out and it didn't disappoint me or make me mad at the franchise so I'm pretty happy. Will definitely have to watch it again for things I missed the first time.