If you start looking that way, you will spoil it for yourself completely, as I did this morning over morning coffee, because characters in TFA are JJ Abrams skin deep.
- Jedi master who's so traumatised by the slaughter of younglings that he ef offs to remote Irish planet, leaving half a map to his new home in his droid (nobody thought to search through for 30 years), half a map to a random tent dweller on a sandy planet and his fathers light sabre as collateral for unpaid bar tab to the owner of Mos Isley Tavern II. Once the map to Skellig Michael is put together - tada - there he is, exactly as on the map, still standing on the cliff and looking at the water, torn and somber as on day one.
- The once second last remaining Jedi in the universe, who was so busy with political and military career she still didn't have time to master the force.
- The scavenger girl who's stupid enough to wait on a slave planet for 15 years for a family she doesn't even remember and couldn't possibly recognise but discovers she's more powerful than any Jedi in history five minutes after she hears about Jedi for the first time. Because she never met Yoda or Kenobi, and her training wasn't screwed up according to cannon, she can freely use her anger and hate to become uber master of all the hardest tricks (snaps fingers) just like that.
- Indoctrinated from birth toilet cleaning Stormtrooper who's so emotionally torn by his first outing outside of sanitary technician department and sacking of a random desert village that he decides to murder all of his friends and co-workers literally five minutes later.
- The third generation of Empire leaders, architects and technicians making the same Death Star mistakes, but this time they select to use a planet, you know - unmovable object that rotates around its axis, I hope all the planets they want to destroy and within circumferential line of sight.
We can continue on and on, but it's going to lead us into dark place
