Yeah. Reminds me a bit of the end of the Hunger Games, which had a good message on how governments repeatedly don’t work.

I feel like the ST could have explored the difficulties in reestablishing a government. The First Order could be a terrorist group seeking to undermine them. Maybe instead of “Starkiller Base” they spark a conspiracy and turn the galaxy against the New Republic to supporting the Empire once again. Then we would have had some powerful new themes that naturally build upon what we have learned from the OT.

Instead, I can only hope Episode 9 ends things in a way that we can definitively know this will not keep repeating itself.