(January 2, 2016 at 8:37 am)Aractus Wrote: While I agree with that criticism, that's one of the more minor problems of the film. Basically what you're saying is that the transition between the end of Return of the Jedi, and the start of Force Awakens doesn't make comprehensible sense. Whereas if you were to look at any other two adjoining Star Wars films, the audience can follow the narrative that exists off-screen between movies. They flow in an easily comprehensible direction. But in TFA, we don't at all understand how we got there. If anything the New Republic should be at the height of their age now following the downfall of the Empire. That's where the film should have begun - but instead we have a threat to the New Republic that simply overthrows it with no resistance. Why can't the New Republic defend themselves from such a threat? Why did not retaliate directly against the New Order.
As I said earlier the film simply makes no sense. The Old Republic was overthrown from within - and that's generally how great and powerful societies do get overthrown. It happened with Nazi Germany, it happened centuries earlier in Egypt for example - they lost their entire existing culture because they converted to Islam - and for over a millennia no one could even read Egyptian hieroglyphs!
What in the movie made you think the New republic was not at the height of his power?
What in the movie made you think the new republic has been over thrown?
Granted the central government has been destroyed and no doubt their will be turmoil but I do not see a galactic wide government being completely destroyed by what amounts to a scaled up version of the 9/11 attacks.
