The real problem they have is expanding the scope of Star Wars. It has a huge universe explored to a degree in the old Expanded Universe books (restarted with the new books after the old EU was tossed out as non-canon by Disney), but the truth is that Star Wars has always been Rebels fighting the Empire. They’re trying to restart that now, but will it work? Is there anymore to it? Even in the excellent “Knights of the Old Republic” comics and games, it was the Republic fighting against the Sith Empire, which was just the Empire with a few more Dark Jedi tossed around.
They can only re-hash the original concept so many times before people lose interest, but Disney will have to take risks with a flagship property they paid billions for.
I thought that we were seeing a rehash of the original Star Wars in The Force Awakens.
Instead of young Luke Skywalker, you had the Rey girl. Her droid companion was BB8, similar to how Luke was accompanied by R2D2 and 3PO. They were on a journey. The bad guys were after them. Instead of the bad guys being the Empire, the bad guys were named The First Order.
And I’ve heard speculation that Rey, having delivered the light saber to Luke, sets it up so that Rey will get Jedi training from Luke, similar to how a young Luke got Jedi training from Yoda.
They are possibly just recycling the storyline all over.