Alderaan said:

rpvee said:

The Empire is now The First Order

The Rebellion is now The Resistance

Seems like brand destruction and a dumb change to me.

So the Rebels are victorious at the battle of Endor and 30 years later they are still the resistance?

The Empire defeated, the emperor gone but the imperials are still in power as the First Order?

I think JJ is trying to recycle the OT way too much here. I get it, he doesn't like the prequels (watch his keynote where he ignores their existence in a question) but certainly the Rebels would be in power now after 30 damn years and the Emperor destroyed?

I guess I'm clinging to the New Republic EU but honestly it did make sense. More then the Resistance/First Order stuff.