towne32 said:

Akton said:

I'm also deeply disappointed that Starkiller Base is really nothing at all more than a third Death Star. I mean I knew it kind of was conceptually already, but the disappointment is much more visceral now that I see that even on a visual level it is nothing more than (yet another) copy and paste job. I agree with the analogy to the A-Bomb on the one hand - yes, there's no practical reason why a super-weapon design would be completely jettisoned when it has proven effective in the past. But come on, we're talking about a Space Fantasy saga where creativity and spectacle have trumped practicality in such delightful fashion, giving us such wonderful impractical implements of war as the AT-AT Walker and, well, the lightsaber.

Aesthetically, yes, it is more like the Death Star than I had hoped. From what I'm reading, though, it sounds like it's actually a hijacked planet? That could allow them to do something fairly different with it, not that they necessarily will.

Like maybe smash it into another planet, Doc Smith style? ;