I agree wholeheartedly with Crusaders. Once I saw Pallpatine I laughed (got his reference).
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a whole, the Star Wars franchise is like pizza or sex, its tough to F up. It reminded me of GOT or TWD to a degree in that the beginning was so good and then in order to make money they bled it dry by forcing an awful and hastily written script at the end.
There are throwback nostalgic moments that make the movie great such as Rey calling herself Skywalker on Tatoine and staring off at the two suns much like Luke from New Hope. However, the speed of this movie is off the charts. They throw a lot at you with zero development or care and all kinds of plot holes (Knights of Ren, Can we get some backstory? Hux is a traitor. Zero development. The new dude who is somehow above Hux that we've never seen before? Poe's past life, his past love interest - which they squashed at the end, Rey being able to leave the planet and fly to Kylo Ren's "office" on his ship even though the Knights tracked her to that planet, Leia training to be a Jedi, A sith "wayfinder"? WTF? 2 of em? 1,000 years of Jedi and they never figure it out? The new Storm Trooper detractors introduced at the end - which seem to be related to Lando? A new world beyond physics? Who built that huge fleet? Who were all of those cloaked dudes in the arena at the end? And again, how the f$ck is Pallpatine still alive? And many more.). I will say they did a good job figuring out how to end Leia properly.
Bottom line is the original 3 rock and the rest are garbage. With that said I'll still watch due to the nostalgic factor. Maybe they will get a spin off right in the near future.