If the Star Wars sequels were more explicit about their politics, we wouldn’t just have some much-needed answers—we’d also have tighter, more well-rounded stories. For example, knowing more about the relationship between the Resistance and the New Republic might explain why nobody shows up at the end of The Last Jedi when Leia asks the galaxy for help.
And knowing more about the government back in The Force Awakens would have kept countless Star Wars fans from frantically Googling whether or not Coruscant was destroyed by Starkiller Base (it wasn’t, but you’d have to read yet another book to discover that).
With the Star Wars prequels, the politics most definitely made the films drag and generally made everything more boring. But if the sequels had at least some political info about these organizations and their leaders, we could have had a deeper and more resonant story about a galaxy far, far away with plenty of history.
Instead, we got weird cookie-cutter storytelling that boiled down to “good guys fight bad guys,” making it difficult to get invested in these new characters.
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