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His constant hurling of "mystery boxes" at us was annoying enough. Things like Luke's lightsaber and Maz Kanata's "that is a story for another time"... really? REALLY? Abrams had no backstory for this, at all, he just threw it in there as a fetishistic compulsion, along with so many other things. Which is why none of his stories land in the end.
Speaking of which, then there's his ending TFA in the middle of a scene, as if this was an episode of "Lost" and stay tuned for next week's installment, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.
But the clincher for me is the completely lazy disregard for science and how science works. Instead of doing the homework to at least try to approximate reality, he just did whatever got him to the next page of the saccharine script, to put whatever characters together because it was convenient for him.
In the process of all this, he made the galaxy feel small and flat, instead of vast and grandiose.