Aside form TFA being so much nostalgia and basic story of A New Hope, this issue was my biggest problem with it. And I think the reason this all happened was the desire to play on fans' nostalgia by including old characters.

Had they jumped forward 200 years post ROTJ everyone we loved would be dead...which is fine. And even if you need or want it to follow the Skywalker line, you can still do that but generations beyond. This way you don't have to bring back old loved characters and actors and either kill them on screen (which honestly no one really wants to see) or have them be fricking lame (Leia Poppins) and it would have forced creativity because you'd have to create all new characters.

But most importantly...it would have given them TIME for the The New Order to actually form and build up to what we saw. the end of ROTJ gives us the impressions it's all sunshine and rainbows throughout the galaxy and yet we see in TFA everything clearly started going to shite at about the time the end credits ended back in '83, otherwise they'd have never had time to build and organize any of what we saw in TFA.

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Posted by BulldogXero

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Posted on 7/16/18 at 4:50 pm to GeauxTigerTM

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But most importantly...it would have given them TIME for the The New Order to actually form and build up to what we saw. the end of ROTJ gives us the impressions it's all sunshine and rainbows throughout the galaxy and yet we see in TFA everything clearly started going to shite at about the time the end credits ended back in '83, otherwise they'd have never had time to build and organize any of what we saw in TFA.But most importantly...it would have given them TIME for the The New Order to actually form and build up to what we saw. the end of ROTJ gives us the impressions it's all sunshine and rainbows throughout the galaxy and yet we see in TFA everything clearly started going to shite at about the time the end credits ended back in '83, otherwise they'd have never had time to build and organize any of what we saw in TFA.

The problem with the setup for TFA is that it invalidates so much of what occurs in the original trilogy. The Rebellion defeats the empire and creates a government that lasts about one year longer than the Empire. Han/Leia are separated and probably haven't seen each other in years. Luke Skywalker apparently did nothing but search for Jedi artifacts for the majority of time spent in between trilogies and only decided to try to establish a Jedi academy about 6 or 7 years prior to TFA. He fails miserably at training the new generation of Jedi. They all die and Luke becomes a hermit, living alone on his island for an untold number of years until he is found by Rey.

I think 20 years is enough time to mobilize the forces of the First Order. After all, it took less time to mobilize the Separatist army as well as the Rebellion.

That said, the Resistance literally has no reason to exist. I am utterly baffled why they felt the need to insert a third faction into the story when the Resistance could have just been the Republic fleet.

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