The new soup is cooked with all the old ingredients

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2015)

This was surprisingly disappointing. There's hardly any new idea in this episode. Old characters appear, looking really old now. There's the Millennium Falcon again. There is a new Death Star, blowing up planets again. And again the Rebels blow it up by flying into its energy center and damaging it. There is a father and son story, just like the one between Darth Vader and Luke, only this time it's between Han Solo and his son. And like before they meet for a father-and-son-showdown on a bridge within the death star. There is the old hierarchic structure of the Empire, now called First Order with a virtually present "imperator" and his executive evil guy. There is the desert planet with funny alien races and garbage trading. There is the bar with sinister alien characters and an alien band playing alien music. There is all kinds of war battles and conveniently both the "empire" and the rebels still use their old ships and uniforms. They still aim and fire manually in the 23rd century, otherwise those battle scenes would be really short. There are all kinds of non-plausible things going on. Like, the top rebel prisoner of the First Order is brought to his prison cell by just one storm trooper, and out of thousands it happens to be the "traitor", who consequently helps the prisoner to escape. And so on. Maybe children dig this. As an adult, who has seen the other episodes of Star Wars, it is simply ridiculous.