A promising start of something new.

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2015)

It's episode 4 (and 5 and 6) minus the occasional boredom (I mean it takes ages before Luke leaves Tatooine). Does that make it rip-off? If you consider Episode 2 being a ripped off Episode 5 because it had a similar plot structure and Jango/Boba Fett, Slave 1, a chase in an asteroid field, a city in the clouds (I mean water), then yes it does. The Empire/First Order is obsessed with weapons of mass destruction, so what? The Jedi are all but extinct again? Well, who would want to rebuild the old Republic the way it was when, apparently, all that the Jedi Order can do is produce sexually frustrated and emotionally unbalanced individuals.
Episode 7 leaves a lot of questions unanswered and is very open-ended. Thus, it's way to early to judge the plot. We'll have to wait for episodes 8 and 9 to see where everything is headed. I think, episode 7 is a good start to something new, something that has not been seen. It is not a mere restart or remake.