I loved Rogue One, but it made Starkiller Base feel even dumber.

We now have an entire film dealing with the absolute fear and unprecedented threat that the Death Star bought to the galaxy. Then we have an entire film dedicated to destroying it. In Jedi, we repeat the Death Star trope but it is about so much more; the Death Star conflict is the background to the real action, father vs son, that's taking place on board. When the DSII is destroyed, things feel very real. The Empire is gone; nothing like that can ever come to pass again. It has come through great sacrifice, and it is earnt.Fast forward 30 years, and we get SK Base. A weapon so big that it dwarfs both Death Stars. There's no real explanation to it, no politics surrounding it, the Resistance doesn't even treat it with the same sort of fear you'd expect from a super-weapon. It blows up a planet we don't care about. The fact that the remnants of the Empire can build something that puts the Empire to shame is truly awful storytelling. It absolutely and unabashedly diminishes the importance of the Death Star in the scope of the Star Wars universe, and cheapens the effort taken to destroy it. Starkiller is, I believe, the biggest mis-step since using Qui-Gon in the role Kenobi should have taken in Episode 1.SK Base drags down the film around it, has no real set up and no presence, is not memorable or recognisable, and also cheapens the struggle we see established across 3 films. It pisses me off. Rogue One was excellent, however. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2hJgJse