I have become Abrams destroyer of Franchises

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2016)

Signed up here today just to make my feelings known and to warn others who love the Star Wars universe of my experience with this truly terrible piece of story telling.
I have thought for days about why The Force Awakens left me feeling unmoved and numb at it's conclusion. I have finally worked it out. JJ Abrams has killed the franchise for me, and many others.
The plot and the lead character simultaneously 'jumps the shark' within the first 20 minutes, my brain was screaming what the f**k, are you taking the pi*s. From this point on all I saw on screen were actors going through the motions, none of it seemed believable, nothing moved me, even events that should have saddened me to my core. Maybe I could forgive one such event but the movie is littered with them. I suspect people who parked their brains at the cinema door didn't notice but anyone who's seen the original trilogy will react initially with disbelief and then anger.
The only thing that will get me to watch episode 8 is if I find out that in the yellow scrolling message at its start that Luke had gone psychotic and when Rey hands him his light-saber, he neatly cleaves her in two with it. Then the story could begin again with something more original and hopefully credible. I suspect this will not be the case, so Star Wars in my eyes is dead and the numbness I felt was actually grief for the death of a friend I've known and loved for 38 years.