He gets some death threats from Kylo Ren, but ultimately nothing happens. A stormtrooper, Finn, doesn't participate. Meanwhile, we cut to the village, where Kylo Ren does some ISIS-style beheadings at a village and waxes philosophical about pseudo-Nietzschean Sith stuff, and then orders the stormtroopers to gun down the rest. He wonders who this is, and why she's so important, but he gets no answers except for a brief hologram and a tip that she's probably at some scummy town. Poe manages to escape, and he receives a super secret mission: find this girl named Rey and take her off Jakku and back to D'Qar, the closest Resistance base. Kylo Ren shows up, does some badass Sith stuff, and forces the Resistance to retreat. The Resistance troops, led by Poe Dameron, are told by Senator Organa herself that Jakku cannot fall to the First Order under any circumstances. The film begins at Jakku, as the First Order is taking the planet and the Resistance are left behind to fight them. Even the Empire has lost its way, becoming corrupted and weak.
The current state of affairs is unacceptable, not just because it is disorderly, but because it allows the weak to survive and even thrive. The galaxy must be commanded with the Force, and by force. The Jedi and the Republic are wrong for their egalitarian beliefs equality is a lie, nothing in nature is equal, it is only the powerful who deserve to survive and thrive. This ideology is one of ruthless social Darwinism, believing that the galaxy belongs to those who command the Force (the Sith) and not those who allow the Force to command them (the Jedi). While the Empire proper has lost its way and is now just an authoritarian military dictatorship, just as Palpatine has foreseen, the First Order is motivated by Sith ideology. The First Order is Palpatine's Plan B, his grand scheme to bring the Sith back into power should he and Vader be killed simultaneously. Made up of ex-Imperial personnel loyal specifically to Palpatine and his Sith teachings, the First Order didn't get caught up in the crab pot games the rest of the Empire did after Endor. "Make the Empire Great Again" is really simplistic, and I want to make the First Order more compelling, like better interpretations of prequel-era Palpatine. I find the canon First Order's motives.wanting.
Like ISIS, they have control of territory:Īnd of course, there's motivation. It uses terrorist tactics, like suicide bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, the works.
It uses old OT-era equipment, as opposed to the shiny new designs used by the Republic and Empire. The First Order in this incarnation isn't a shiny new Empire, it's the opposite. The Second Republic's biggest problem is ongoing terrorism from the First Order. The Hutts have taken control of large sectors, and both sides are using proxies to try and destroy one another. There is a tenuous peace, enforced by the construction of new Death Stars (or "Peace Stars," as the Republic calls them). The Rebellion's victory isn't total, and that is made clear in the opening scroll: half of the galaxy is still under Imperial control, and while the Empire is not the juggernaut it was thirty years ago, it's still a great power. This backstory is inspired by then-current events, much Kim the original trilogy. It isn't the main focus, obviously, but it is explored in the opening scroll.
The biggest change is in the backstory, in that this incarnation of TFA actually has one.
0 kommentar(er)
