Anchorhead said:
My point with quoting and responding in this manner isn’t to be dickish. It’s to show that those points could easily be applied to the real world.
If we’re talking about how threats appear in Star Wars, I remember George Lucas saying there were parallels between U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam and Iraq when compared to the rise of and actions of the Empire. With a not-so-covert statement on it all in Revenge of the Sith. Rag-tag groups of terrorists/freedom fighters/insurgents weren’t the idea behind it.
Abrams has gone on to say the First Order are basically Nazis somehow rising out of their hideouts in Argentina. It didn’t happen in the real world and its equally implausible in the Star Wars universe.
If there’s a new trilogy after this one, I want a new threat. One that doesn’t diminish previous movies.