[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Totally agree. TFA is only like ANH in the aspects that it goes through familar territory in locations. Other than that, it is an entirely different movie.

Okay. So TFA isn't the story of a plucky teenager with a quirky droid with an attitude carrying a secret message that holds the fate of the galaxy in its memory banks. They meet on a desert planet, where she later meets up with a scoundrel on the run with a heart of gold. They leave the desert planet in the Millennium Falcon of all things, and later meets a legendary war hero from the past thought long gone, who decides to help the plucky teenager and even takes her in as her mentor. She later watches this mentor die as he is killed during a rescue attempt on a death star, or in this case a star killer, by a shadowy, imposing figure in a black mask and a red laser sword...

There's more to it than that, including space princesses being tortured by shadowy masked guy, planets being blown up as "demonstrations", a race against the clock for the rebel army to save themselves, the giant death planet being extinguished by a spot internally only a small flying craft can get to, a mission to knock out shields inside the death planet where the mentor is killed, and so on and so on...

There is even a scene where a stormtrooper is thrown into a trash compactor.

Nope. I haven't seen this movie before.

While the order of some of the events are slightly different, you are kidding yourself if you think TFA is only similar to ANH in locations. There is a reason that JJ Abrams has often been reffered to as the biggest plagiarist in Hollywood.