Maz Kanata is force sensitive and somewhat all-seeing. You don't get to run a tavern crawling with pirate scum and stay out of trouble for 1000 years without some kind of gift like that :p
it held up well on a second viewing. I was keeping an eye on all the nitpicks I had and that I've read about after seeing it a week ago. Honestly, none of it really mattered much. It even felt less like A New Hope, probably because I wasn't looking for similarities anymore. The duel between Kylo and Rey wasn't problematic…