It's hard to know what to do with The Force Awakens. The failure of George Lucas' prequels somehow manages to set the bar both high (Please don't disappoint us again!) and low (Just don't be terrible). My own expectations were hardened rather early when Rian Johnson was announced as the director of Episode VIII in June 2014. Reminded that VII would serve primarily as a first act, I wrote "All [J.J. Abrams] really has to do now is feed [Johnson]…
