Care more about merchandise sales than a good storyline

Rating: 3/10 (15 December 2017)

Visually the movie was great. At the beginning the 3D seemed a little fuzzy and faces in the background were blurry but it seemed to clear as the movie went on. There were a few scenes that were too dark as well. Other than that it's what we've come to expect from a Star Wars movie especially the scene when the rebel cruiser collides with Snoke's ship. The musical score was on point as well. These are the parts of the movie I can't complain about.
The story was the part lacking and I have to believe that's all on Disney. It seemed like they threw in more comedy(something I've noticed in a lot of Disney movies lately) and did things simply for merchandise sales. Those little bird things that I don't care to learn the name of? What did they do for the story exactly? After the 3rd time they were shown I was tired of them especially in the scene where one is in the cockpit with Chewbacca.
Leia can apparently survive in space through the force? That's uh, odd and seems a lot like another Disney movie...oh yeah, guardians of the galaxy.
Snoke apparently is quite the force user, being able to connect Kylo and Rey galaxies away from one another but is taken down like it's nothing. No real fight put up. Honestly one of the most anticlimactic endings to a villain I've ever seen. The ensuing battle between what I'm guessing were the handful of other Jedi Luke mentioned fleeing with Kylo was the best part of the entire scene. Especially the different weapons using the same technology as lightsabers.
Why exactly do we need a new love triangle between Finn, Rey and the new character whose name I simply cannot remember at the moment?
Last but not least Disney seemingly killed any hope that Rey was also a Skywalker in this movie, instead she's a "nobody" as Kylo put it. So, a nobody has as much power as the grandson of the "chosen one"? Did all those movies leading up to this mean absolutely nothing?
Are we going to see a time skip between this and the next movie? Was that the point of showing the child at the end? The rebellion will be getting new members but they're kids now so not like they can help much.
Ultimately the movie was decent visually but the story just left so much to be desired in my opinion. I'm wondering if I shouldn't have just saw it in 2D for cheaper like the majority of others did in my theater complex(8 people got the 8:15 3D). By the time the second hour bad rolled around i was ready to go home.