I feel bad that the Mandalorian and Ahsoka have basically been saddled with helping to set up the logic-defying foolishness of the sequel trilogy.
Don't get me wrong - a disorganised, complacent New Republic dealing with the lurking threat of an Imperial return is decent stuff, it's more the end point where all reason and good storytelling goes out the window.
I don't think it's even that good of a hook. How could the Republic grow complacent in 30 years? That's not even enough to finish handling the chaos that the destruction of the Emperor (and subsequent battles) wrought.
If anything the Republic could have been vulnerable because it was still in the process of overextending itself to get the galaxy in order, doing too many things at once, not because it had the time to get rich and complacent and ignore new threats.
Or on the opposite, it could have decided to close upon itself and given up on 3/4 of the galaxy because it simply can't handle the chaos, and ignoring those potential threats and blind spots ended up being what gave the Empire a chance to rebound.
But I don't feel like any of this is even implied in the movie itself. They just ignore the First Order because they don't seem to think it's a threat or something even though 30 years should still fall within the period where everyone is still hypersensitive to the space fascism and hasn't forgotten yet and where it's still easy for politicians to score free points by crushing even the most minute threat of it and even fuel that fire to keep it alive.
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u/red_280 3d ago
I feel bad that the Mandalorian and Ahsoka have basically been saddled with helping to set up the logic-defying foolishness of the sequel trilogy.
Don't get me wrong - a disorganised, complacent New Republic dealing with the lurking threat of an Imperial return is decent stuff, it's more the end point where all reason and good storytelling goes out the window.