To play the Devil’s Advocate here, there well may be. Disney is notorious for protecting their IPs and should they take offense at a critics review, said critic could well expect to find themselves “out in the cold” as it were regarding advanced views and the like. (For an example, take a look at how the video game…

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The problem with continuing where you left off is what do you say in the opening crawl? You recap Episode 7? It’s not like previous films where you can clue people in on what’s been going on since EP7. Because it literally continues where it left off.