Hello there!
- The rebels won the war
They won. Period. We can’t accept to see that nothing changed. That the OT characters and their efforts lead to NOTHING at all. We can’t be satisfied with just a line in the TFA’s crawl saying that “the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire” to make us watch the same Empire Vs Rebellion story we already saw. I, personally, find depressing seeing the New Republic been destroyed in ten seconds, compared with the great ad “historically accurate” Palpatine’s rise to power we see in the prequels.
What should be done: contextualize the First Order as the reorganised Imperial remnant, a second grade power in a galaxy changed since the OT.
I agree the idea of an Empire 2.0 is highly depressing. So was World War II. I think it was meant to be depressing.
- Inconsistencies with the depicting of the Force
No one can use the Force without training. Not even Anakin could.
Logically, one person must have been the first Force user in the galaxy if you go back far enough. That person must have taught himself without training. Right?