Star Wars: The Force Awakens - An Unmitigated Disaster

Author's note:  I initially wrote a bunch of these articles in March and then stopped to do other things.  Since then I've consumed more media and have better comparisons to make to The Force Awakens.  With the upcoming new movie, my plan is to rush these out as quickly as possible, which couldn't possibly end in failure.  Why, just look how quickly The Force Awakens was produced.

I'll be constantly updating this post as new articles are published.  Everything is going to be published out of order because I'm horribly organized and need to push myself to do things.

I'm rather later to posting any sort of review for The Force Awakens.  It will have absolutely no effect on anything whatsoever, but I wanted to post my inane ramblings somewhere.

The Franchise Shambles from Its Grave

When Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced a new set of Star Wars movies, people were generally hopeful.  George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy failed to impress both audiences and critics.  The movies contained bizarre dialogue, odd/inappropriate action sequences, poor story/plots, and didn't mesh well with the original trilogy (characters didn't act like their Original Trilogy counterparts).  Surely Disney couldn't produce a movie as bad as that?

Three years after Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm, they released The Force Awakens, which contains bad dialogue, bad characters, bad action, bad story and plot, as well as it just doesn't feel like Star Wars as all.  At least Lucas's Prequels still sort of felt like Star Wars.  The Force Awakens is a Marvelized version of Star Wars.

This entire blunder can be laid at the feet of The Force Awakens' director, J.J. Abrams.

The magnitude of Disney's failure is so great, I'll be going in-depth on each topic and linking to them from this post.  It went wrong in so many ways, it's practically required.

Table of Contents

1. The Characters
2. Star Wars vs. Game of Thrones
3. The Plot and Story
4. The Dialogue
5. The Action
6. J.J. Abrams
7. Conclusion