You're horrible in general.

It was a bit rushed at the end, and the quest for Luke felt kind of tacked-on. I think if these people were doing Empire, they'd have had Lando and Chewie fly off and arrive at Jabba's palace with Lando trudging across the desert, to enter, presumably to apply for a guard's job, while staring longingly at Han's carbon frozen form. That was one misstep, I felt, solely to include the dramatic turn and appearance of Luke, and to justify all the announcements that Mark Hamill was in it. If they actually HAD to put Hamill in it, they could have had a flashback or something, and save the encounter with Rey for episode VIII.

If they were whiny douchebags. I thought they were everything WoT fans hated the Forsaken being revealed to be. It seems like on the WoT boards, one of our main disagreements about the Forsaken was that you wanted them to be Vader, Palpatine or Maul, but they were actually Kylo Ren, and I was the only one who was fine with that. When he took off his mask, my first thought was "You know nothing about the Force, Jon Snow!"
I don't get this at all. What did they do aside from holding back the blaster round? It seemed to me like they bucked previously established stuff. Luke's first conscious use of the Force was to make a difficult shot that was not far removed from what he is implied to have been subconsciously doing all the time. Rey, on the other hand, does the Jedi mind-trick with absolutely no training or experience whatsoever. Both she and Finn are way more adept with a light saber than anyone who touched one for the first time in this film has any business being. By contrast, Kylo Ren seems like the least competent Dark Side swordsman in the entire series. Even Obi-Wans' and Vader's first/last duel gave more of a sense of competence, as in two great masters who are so good that they only need to use economical feints and movements, and so far removed from the emotional conflict of their previous match-up that they feel no need for strenuous lunges and chops. Kylo Ren just flails around smashing inanimate objects, and killing non-resisting old men, while taking far too long to defeat a powerless stormtrooper and unable to overcome a total tyro.

Yes.

Also yes.

Also, the lightsaber from episodes 3, 4 & 5 is apparently Star Wars' benevolent equivalent of the One Ring. It WANTS to be found!

Are we supposed to know or care who Max von Sydow's character is? It seems like he should have been connected to the old characters somehow.

I also wonder if killing Han was the right move. Historically, the acceptance of a Star Wars film seems to hinge a great deal on his appearance in it. On the other hand, it fits the pattern establish by I & IV of killing the mentor in a confrontation with the villain, despite his being the best or otherwise most impressive character, and thus preventing his overshadowing the protagonists in the upcoming films. I also wonder how they're going to justify Luke running off to hide instead of dealing with the problems his failure created. Maybe they won't, which might be really good for characterization, if done right. On the other hand, I thought this film exhibited, if any flaw, a tendency to gloss over stuff or skip past developments that might slow things down. That could really ruin Luke's return in the next film. I think it might have been better for him to be the sacrificial mentor in this one, but that might have overcrowded it with OT characters, or necessitated the reduction of Han's role. I can't see trading some Han for more Luke being an improvement. Also, while killing Luke might have been something that could be moved past on Kylo Ren's redemption arc, killing Han is a whole other order of magnitude. If anything is going to put him beyond redemption, in the eyes of characters AND fans, that was it. That means either his redemption must be REALLY earned, if done right, or that there is no redemption for him. Either of those stories could be really good going forward. Forgetting it to have Luke and Leia redeem & embrace him...not so much.