Desert planets aren't out of the norm in the Star Wars universe lol are you fucking kidding me right? This is how I know you are just bitching just for the hell of it.
So if something isn't out of the norm in the Galaxy you can re-use the same setting in the same way in the same acts as previous films and it's fresh. Ok fanboy.
Young protagonist left on desert planet meets cute republic droid who just escaped the empire and calls them to action. Yea real original use of this setting and character development. Never seen it before.
Then protagonist meets reluctant hero partner and they must escape the empire in the falcon, can they fix it in time?
Han (sub Finn this time around) has to grapple with the choice to run or stay and fight. protagonist realizes they have force powers as republic realizes the spin off empire has a death star.
Protagonist joins republic battle to blow up Death Star. They fly a single x wing into its weak section. Boom. Bad Jedi escapes. Who could have guessed how that would have gone down.
Yep there are a few new characters and good back stories I appreciated but not enough to make up the constant re-hashing.
The droid didn't have a hologram of a Jedi, it was holding a missing part to the map in which to find Luke.
Whoa a map instead. The hologram was a little different. That makes this plot device totally unique and imaginative storytelling. Good call.
The First Order is an offshoot of the Galactic Empire lol we've known this before the film was released and it's pretty evident by the technology they use and the use of Stormtroopers. This isn't a Death Star considering the Death Star was an artificially made superweapon that destroys planets while the new superweapon was made from a planet and destroyed entire systems. It was a marked improvement from the originally Death Star, which aligns perfectly with the notion that The First Order/Snoke/Kylo Ren have a hard on for the Empire and Vader.
An off-shoot that coincidentally has the exact same power balance with the republic the empire did in 4-6 even after decades of battles, the republic blowing up multiple death stars and saving the Galaxy a few times. It's like everything that happened in 4-6 didn't mean anything as other posters said. Republic is still a rag tag group, first order although just an offshoot of the crumbled empire seems to have the same power over the Galaxy and republic the empire did before, reasons for this not explained well...yawn.
And lol at this Death Star being a creative idea different then the previous. Looked the same, blew up stuff pretty much the same, got blown up EXACTLY the same way. When they are making a battle plan the even show them side by side and they are totally similar besides size. Ask someone who hasn't seen the film what they think happens with this weapon and they could tell you. It was bigger yea, bigger waste of 3rd act screen time. Just a weak way to get all the characters to the fight. You really find this creative writing?
