I don't have a long history (no attachment to an ideal based on childhood experience that many others seem to have) with Star Wars and I liked it, even though I

I don't have a long history (no attachment to an ideal based on childhood experience that many others seem to have) with Star Wars and I liked it, even though I thought some of it was really strange. That said, I'm no movie critic, and am fairly easy to please. At first I was surprised that it's as divisive as it is. But I think it's a franchise fraught with very personal and specific expectations from long-time fans and when that's the case, the reviews will tend to be more polarized, especially when anything new is tried. The humorous moments were sometimes a nice touch but maybe a bit overdone. I really preferred the darker/religious type of scenes (Jedi books, the underground mirror/darkness, etc). I'm still a bit torn about the whole mind-linking thing and the Leia-space moment (trying to be vague here). But again, for me these are nitpicks, whereas they may be deal-breakers for others.