Oh my god, between this and the nitpicks on the X-wing picture I will likely be completely avoiding all internet discussion leading up to the films. I mean, seriously people. A vague hint at what might be the plot of a film that is a year off and hasn't even finished filming, and everyone is already making judgements as to the film's quality. Can we just wait and actually SEE what comes up in the future before jumping on the Abrams hate train and declaring the movie an abomination? Please? All this doom and gloom when we haven't actually seen anything of the film and have no concrete details about anything going on in it, it's rather silly and preemptive.
Also, people need to stop pining for the EU. Seriously. Most of it was utter rubbish and I'm glad to see it gone, so all the crap can be scraped away and we can get new things that aren't bogged down by what came before. Thrawn isn't gonna be in these films, we aren't gonna have Jacen and Jaina running around. Stop looking at this through the lens of the long overdrawn glorified fanfaction that was the EU.