The most interesting part of the PT to me was seeing the Republic turn into the Empire. I think there’s something so cool about seeing the “good guys” using prototypes of TIE Fighters, or seeing them at the head of a Venator-class Star Destroyer. This is something that I had never thought about until now, but what Neverar and Mithrandir said make me really wish that something like it had been done in TFA. It still feels like the Empire is in control, with their shiny and newly redesigned armor and their spiffy new TIE Fighters, and the Resistance is still wearing this;

The more I think about it, the more I’m disappointed that we didn’t see the First Order presented the way the Resistance was. It could’ve been a “poetic” reversal of the Original Trilogy, with the First Order as a ragtag group of fighters using guerrilla tactics against the technologically superior New Republic.