It's increrdible how these little movements make so much different, even in a robot where the rest of the face does not.

Still, I guess I'm gonna have to do this dance every year, now. Until the end of time. Sigh.

I think that's a good cue to open this up for discussion to SPOILERS, especially since the release is imminent and the media reviews are being posted.

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Yes, she was. Tarkin, however...

Vader's citadel looked much like what I've envisioned these many years, and the acolytes there were a nice touch. And Vader, himself, was most impressive. Back to the evil badass he was before ROTJ castrated him. James Earl Jones even seemed to shift the timbre of his voice to match that of the first film rather than the deeper feel it had in the two sequels. 

Really nice to see/ hear the nods to the REBELS tv show. That was great. 

As mentioned above, it took a while to really, really feel like a Star Wars movie, but once it hits, it hits big time. I guess it was done pretty well since I was really sad when they died. I was emotionally invested even tho, going in, I didn't think any of them would survive. 

If there's a movie fans of only the original movie would like, I would think this would be it. It features none of SAGA nonsense and serves as prologue for that film. 

As I mentioned above, this was the first movie since the original three that felt like a Star Wars movie to me, and is probably the only one of any of the sequels that really felt like the first film.  The zombie of Peter Cushing creeped me out a little, but since he's a villain, it didn't take me out of the movie. 

To me it was about the little things, like the fact that, as in the original movie, all of the rebels' technology looked old, beat up, and generally like they stole it from an imperial surplus depot somewhere.  It also felt like a war movie for the first time in a long time.  It really gave the feel of poorly equipped rebels fighting against all hope against a vastly more powerful evil Empire, and winning their victories at great cost.

And I liked that the comic relief came in a very dry, deadpan way, rather than silliness or goofiness at the expense of the characters or the universe. 

To me, the only flaws don't really count as flaws, because they're basically Star Wars tropes.  I.e. the stormtroopers go to all the trouble of wearing that armor even though it protects them from absolutely nothing, apparently no one in the Star Wars universe is afraid of heights because everything is built with these gangways and promontories extended out thousands of feet over nothing, etc.