No man I disagree strongly and I have evidence to support it.
Star Trek TNG.
Big success. Years into the future from TOS. You had like one original character as a touchstone. Well two, the Enterprise of course granted a new ship.
A syndicated from the start episodic TV program based on a TV series vs. a feature film based on a film series franchise is not an apt comparison. TNG benefited from 25 first season episodes and even with that luxury wasn't very good. And in their pilot the brought in DeForrest Kelly to ground the series. From the standpoint of shear content, TNG had over 50 hours of screen time the first two seasons to try and sell the premise and they barley made it. TFA had ONE shot to bridge 30 years, bring back the old fans and bring in the new and the hit a undeniable bullseye. So their instinct has proven to be correct.
Oh, that's so funny, @NeoRutty wrote the same thing I said while I was typing.