I kind of realized something about Starkiller base the other day too. I realized that I don’t think I (or many other people) would have disliked the repeated death star thing as much had it not already been rehashed in Jedi. Like if Jedi didn’t have the death star plot and instead focused on like storming the Imperial Capitol or something, then the idea that the first order built their own, bigger, better version of the death star would not have been so annoying. It would have actually been kind of cool. The only reason it was not well recieved (for me at least) was because it was the THIRD time the planet sized superweapon thing had been done in this series. It would have made sense that they spent the last 40 odd years redesigning and perfecting the design into a greater threat.

Would have been even cooler if it DIDN’T get destroyed at the end of the film, so it could be a threat throughout the trilogy.