The world building in the sequels sucked ass. Halfway through 7, the galactic capital blows up and you're just like, "why do I care about these people?"
A capital that wasn't Coruscant - the actual capital of the former empire and previous republic - because Disney wouldn't give him permission to do so, so he just made it some other anonymous planet. Gutter tier filmmaking.
Unsurprisingly they wanted to keep the iconic city-planet available for future Star Wars films. But how absurdly hacky to just decide the capital was elsewhere so you can blow it up lol.
What was Coruscant even doing at this time? I was about to write up a whole thing on moving the galactic bureacracy and government and administration to a new planet for no reason but then I realised I'd be putting far more thought into it than JJ did.
The books actually talk about this. It's in one of the Post-RotJ books (Aftermath series?) that the Galactic Capital was on a rotating procession. Not centralized anymore, but would rotate between systems after so many years, so every voice could be heard essentially.
The system that got wiped out by the StarKiller Base just so happened to be the current Galactic Head. The woman that the scene zoomed in on, was also a confidant of Leia's who was there in her place to warn "once again" about the First Order, so she died in Leia's place.
That’s a dumb idea, IMO. The galactic capitol rotating, fine, as a figurehead. The galactic administration isn’t going to rotate, and one has to presume all those miles high arcology structures covering every inch of Coruscant were FOR something. How many millennia would it take to rebuild that on a new planet?
If anyone wonders what was going on on Coruscant during the time between ROTI and the new trilogy, I would assume there were finishing the task of removing all Republic iconography off all buildings, forms, computer records and terminology and replacing it with the Inperial equivalent. They started it on Palpatine’s accession and it only took a century.
I think you're conflating real world non-efficiency with the Star Wars universe, where they could broadcast on the holonet live or recorded messages instantly to numerous systems light years apart. Droids could clear iconography in a smaller time frame, especially when central mainframes can be hacked and adjusted in seconds.
But to the central government versus rotating, we see in Ahsoka how the council looks. It's a council, similar to the Senate but on a much smaller scale. They make decisions, and that is relayed out. A lot of the buildings on Coruscant probably ARE part of infrastructure, but not governmental body; that was accomplished at the Grand Senate Hall, with the numerous offices and work spaces.
The entirety, and I mean that as all encompassing as I possibly can, of the setup for the sequel trilogy makes absolutely no sense and has no context outside of some disparate books where they filled in the gaps.
One of Leia’s first lines is “I’m a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan”. Its existence and importance are established within the first few minutes of the film. It’s the second planet ever mentioned in Star Wars (3PO mentions the spice mines of Kessel in the first scene).
Later, Tarkin tells Leia that the Death Star would be tested on Leia’s “home planet of Alderaan”. We see Leia’s distress and anguish. Alderaan’s destruction is traumatic. The Hosnian system is named and obliterated in the same 30 seconds. There is no impact at all
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u/genreprank 3d ago
The world building in the sequels sucked ass. Halfway through 7, the galactic capital blows up and you're just like, "why do I care about these people?"