From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <201220151100033744%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
   Your Name wrote:   
   >In article ,   
   >Sandman wrote:   
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   >> In article , The Doctor wrote:   
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   >> Not so much of a review than a plot summary in bullet form.   
   >   
   >Ahh, you want a review ... try these snippets from the local newspaper   
   >review:   
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   > ...   
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   > The Force Awakens may be about life many decades   
   > post-Vader, but it can feel like nothing has changed.   
   > And that's where this Star Wars disappoints slightly.   
   > It's just *too* Star Wars - as in the original 1977   
   > A New Hope movie - for its own good.   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > But much of the story feels lifted, for the most part,   
   > from the first film, with some heavy echoes of its   
   > sequels.   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > This Star Wars, though, pretty much answers the   
   > question "what if that first film had the special   
   > effects we have now?"   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > But mostly The Force Awakens is playing a familiar   
   > tune - right from the first blast of John Williams'   
   > still-thrilling theme - and then it pretty much   
   > sticks to it all the way.   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   > But so far as the story goes, this feels more like   
   > Old Testament Star Wars to keep the faithful happy   
   > enough and reminded of the old magic rather than   
   > offering much that will surprise or reconsider   
   > what's gone before.   
   >   
   > Still, if this spends a little too much time on the   
   > planet Deja Vu, it has a great epilogue set-up to   
   > further chapters.   
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   >   
   >Jar Jar Abrams is just an over-hyped, lazy, talentless, hack ... always   
   >has been, always will be., and now he's ruining yet another once-great   
   >franchise. :-(   
      
   What are you doing here?   
      
   You hate Capaldi. You hate Moffat. You hate Abrams.   
      
   What brings you here?   
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