I haven't pulled punches when it comes to my criticism if Jar Jar Abrams; but, I finally zeroed in to a particular aspect of his filmmaking that consistently bothers me.
He writes the way I did when I was in elementary school.
Seriously, when Armageddon came out, I was playing around with a movie idea (what I thought was an idea at the time) about an asteroid the size of Alaska rather than the puny asteroid the size of Texas.
That's how Abrams operates. He figures that if a space station the size of a small moon with the ability to destroy a planet is intimidating and makes for good drama then he should just make a weapon the size of a planet that can destroy seven planets at once. If one star destroyer is cool, wait until you see a thousand star destroyers all equipped with world ending weaponry.
Granted, he shares that childlike quality with the greatest filmmaker of all time, Spielberg. But, Spielberg never gets lazy about it. Spielberg is creative and imaginative. Abrams just takes existing formulas and makes them bigger and shinier.