I originally had planned to wait a little until I watched it, but then I realised that if I did that, chances were I wouldn't be able to watch it unspoiled, so I thought, what the hell, and caught an afternoon performance. Overall result: fun movie, I love two of the new characters, some things were great, some (minor) things were groanworthy, some were headache inducing but may clear up and become great in the next movies.

Before I get into spoilery details, however, a warning: I'm not quite the target audience because of various issues that make me part of a minority among Star Wars watchers:

1) I genuinely, really, unironically love the prequels, whereas I only like the OT.

2.) I couldn't care less about whether or not Han Solo shot first. And while we're at it, Han Solo was the character I cared least about in the OT. I was interested in Vader, Leia and Luke, not necessarily in that order, but Han never got more than a shrug emotionally from me.

3.) I read a few of the EU books that got published in the otherwise Star Wars less years between, but stopped relatively early on, because with one exception, where it was something of a subplot, they didn't touch on the one thing in the post OT era I was actually interested in - Leia dealing with the Vader revelation. (I was also interested in Luke and Leia having a sibling relationship, but no book ever seemed to deal with that before I stopped reading, either.) Otherwise, I was fine with leaving Luke, Leia and Han where they were at the end of Return of the Jedi and didn't need any follow up.

All this established, here's what I thought about The Force Awakens:

( It's true, all of it )