Star Wars characters have MASSIVE value, writers/directors must RESPECT them!

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2017)

OK so here's the thing, if this movie stood alone, outside of the star wars universe, I would have probably said it was a pretty exciting watch. However it does exist in the Star Wars Universe and so directors and writers MUST respect it as such.
Star Wars characters have value..... MASSIVE value to fans that have been brought up with these films. This film as well as the Force Awakens (although I felt that was OK) has taken these characters that we loved and seems so super human, who never gave up and made them old, broken vulnerable people. Again fine if they were outside the Star Wars Universe. So you're telling me Luke, arguable the most positive character in Star Wars has given up all hope. But that's not enough right, he has to consider murder........RIDICULOUS.
Finn seems a little flat to me. Always running, scared. Do we not remember he was a Stormtrooper? Can he finally get knee deep in a battle with a blaster?
Rey was fine. Seems to figure the force out a little too quickly though.
Poe is a trigger happy pilot, can we not just keep him in the cockpit? Why must we have the constant learning lessons?
So the film itself looked great, was acted solid, a little simple from a plot perspective but at the end of the day I would have enjoyed it outside the Star Wars Universe. In the Star Wars Universe....It only succeeded in making The Force Awakens worse for me.
Conclusion:
Why are writer and directors taking Star Wars and trying to do it different? Why break down these characters we love so much? These broken down people are not the characters we watched. Not even close. They can be old and still be positive. They can be old and be wise. That can be old and still fight. They are trying to get us to accept these new characters as the future, and while they are fine in their own right, they could benefit from the old characters being done better....oh wait they've already killed off two of them.
Finally, please RESPECT Star Wars. RESPECT it's history. RESPECT it's characters. Quit turning your writer/director beret sideways and going all artsy fartsy, and use Star Wars correctly. RESPECT, please RESPECT.