How is Finn a walking contradiction? Just curious.

I blame Downton Abbey.

I suppose he refers to leaving Stormtropping behind for being killers and then killing Stormtroopers without blinking.

But I suppose you could argue that he is killing bad guys now who kill innocent people. But then Finn being a Stormtrooper himself should know that not all of them are bad.

Before TFA I'd never heard anyone use Mary Sue about a character like they did for Rey it's such an out of use saying XD

anyway, I love the trailer

Like Abbath said: Finn leaves Empire 2.0 or whatever because he saw his friend die and then turns around to kill stormtroopers.

Oh yeah, I forgot his friend died at the beginning.

I suppose that friend was the only good guy there and the rest was mean to him. Maybe Finn is in "Columbine Mode" against the rest of the Stormtroopers.

I gave the Force Awakens a shot... I really did. I think it's safe to say that Star Wars ended with Return of the Jedi. Those three films were great and we never needed more. To me, that's it. I won't recognize another film lol.

Because the fact that they just made the best Star Wars movie in 30 years is something really concerning for this one?

I'm sorry but you need to be blind or clueless about cinema to ignore how well directed TFA was compared to the "new trilogy", the amount of talent they put behind that film is nothing less than good sign for this new one, yes the screenplay had some incoherences (as usual on the saga), but cinema is way more than a screenplay, specially when are talking about and action adventure film in space.

I've kinda come to accept that the OT simply cannot be topped. 

They will never be able to create a villian as good as Darth Vader, and the OT managed to create one even better than Vader in The Emperor. 

They will never have the spiritual underpinnings that Yoda brought to the series. There's just too many good things in OT that they just can't ever top IMO. 

They can't beat the twist of Vader being Luke's father, etc. etc. etc.

That said TFA passed my test of I was watching it on Netflix, just for 10 minutes, but I ended up watching the whole movie straight through again and even more shocking is my girlfriend, who is not a Star Wars fan by any stretch of the imagination also watched the entire movie. 

Pros to the TFA ... the banter between characters is good again .... sometimes really good, especially having Han back. Like a warm blanket, JJ really knows how to write and direct for Han Solo. 

Also when Rey gets the lightsaber .... goosebumps, goosebumps, everywhere. Oh I thought they handled the pivotal Han-Kylo scene better than I thought. Lucas of today probably would've had Han rip a giant fart at that moment. 

I didn't think it was a total waste. It felt more "Star Wars" than the prequels. The effects were right and the sound was all around great. But like you said, it's just no where near the OT and that's really what I want. To me, it was like going to see a reunion of a great band 20 years after their prime. It's nostalgic... it's cool, but it's just never going to come close to what it once was. I really don't see the point in spending money on watered down experience anymore. Yes, seeing Luke (for 5 seconds!??!?!) was awesome and Han etc. but that's not enough for me. The next two movies won't live up to the OT and that's my issue.