For all the people saying that it wasn't that original, I get it. I was literally thinking about that when I was watching it for the first time. But were y'all expecting a Prisoner of Azkaban type franchise reinvention?
There was no way in hell Disney and Lucasfilm were going to risk out of the box ideas or even an ounce of edginess. They played it totally safe and pandered the fans (which lbr could have gone both ways. Watchmen, for example, was a mess) but it completely worked and got people excited for quality Star Wars. I know it's once again fashionable to trash the prequels en masse, but the last person who tried to be original with Star Wars was George Lucas with Phantom Menace and we all know how that turned out.
So yeah, deep down I would have liked something that felt newer, but it was still completely incredible and the new characters are amazing