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The entire Imperial government tried to operate as it had after the Emperor's death, even trying to cover it up and denying that a battle on Endor ever took place. There was a schism between the various Moffs for a period of time until finally one faction made off with the final remaining Super Star Destroyer. From that faction, the First Order was born. There was a huge naval battle over Jakku prior to the Imperial schism, which had big losses for both sides but it was devastating for the Empire. Part of the reason for the Empire doing so badly was that many of the seasoned captains and admirals were lost over Endor, and thus officers rushed up the chain of command were put in charge of their replacement fleet. The Star Destroyer Rey was scavenging was named The Inflictor, which was intentionally crashed into the planet after the Rebels were able to land a boarding party and infiltrate beyond the first line of stormtroopers.
20th Century Fox retains ownership rights to the first six movies under the purchase agreement until 2020. Then it all transfers to Disney. That's when I'm hoping Disney sees the wisdom in rereleasing the original trilogy without the additional scenes, just the cleaned up images. That would sell as well or better than any newly released movie they could possibly put into the theaters.
You would think FOX would see the value of that right now while they still have ownership...
Below is a rant copied from another board. Hard to argue with any of the points even though I liked VII.
Enjoy!
WHAT A ********** DUMPSTERFIRE
The first act was like some kind of sick joke, intermingling stunning graphics with a barrage of attempts at cheap chuckles.
They were doing fine, until the Millennium Falcon just randomly appeared, unlocked, unguarded and ready to be flown, sitting next to a shady waystation, which just happened to be exactly where it needed to be OUT OF THE MILLIONS OF ********** PLANETS IN THE GALAXY. Yeah, nobody is going to rip that off, to get off a desolate planet. I realize that Luke may have been guiding certain events that look like ridiculous plot holes, like the girl finding Luke's blue light saber that fell into an abyss in Cloud City, but was somehow recovered, but Abrams didn't play it that way. They spent all of two seconds blurting out some gibberish backstory about gangs that the girl knew in its entirety for some ********** reason, and Luke looked somewhat confused when she showed up with his old light saber.
It was all downhill from there, just a parade of awkwardly shoehorning characters from the original trilogy into a rehashed A New Hope, like mindless puzzle pieces snapping into the flimsiest of typical plotlines. Its like they didn't even remotely take this seriously. The "New Order" a bunch of candy-*** Space Nazis unthreateningly bungled around, until whipping out a Death Star rip-off (because two X-wing trench scenes in 7 films apparently wasn't enough) with all the to-do of a minor subplot, before somehow AIMING A PLANET and roasting a bunch of other planets across at least a couple THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS, which of course visibly upsets ABSOLUTELY NO ONE in the film.
I like that the villain, who in all his badassery gave himself the name "Kilo Ren," which sounds like something my 6 year old nephew would come up with, is unstable and childish, but he was supposedly trained by Luke Skywalker and gets whipped around by a bunch of noobs. Why? Who knows. I guess it would be too much to handle for overly fragile children if he didn't get his *** kicked by people who don't really know how to use light sabers or the force.
The pacing was an absolute mess. They didn't take time for the audience to savor anything, save for some nice scenes of wrecked Imperial equipment in the beginning. Nothing was given any depth. Not that the original trilogy was particularly deep, but they at least spent some time on setting up Luke and giving you a look at the universe. The extras weren't particularly interesting. The settings were largely nondescript. There's no sense of the size or power of the First Order, "resistance," or their relationship to the Galactic Senate; just some generic heroes running from some generic bad guys to go blow something up.
I don't think it was as much of a disaster as the prequels, but it had much less personality than those films, which is pretty disgusting. The prequels failed at a lot of character development, but at least aimed for mediocre interest in the players. This film was soulless. It had no emotion whatsoever, which is incredible considering how many scenes included people getting WAY too upset over injuries to characters they've known for a total of a few hours.
THEY'RE ABOUT TO BLOW UP THE HOME PLANET OF THE RESISTANCE AND EVACUATION ISN'T EVEN MENTIONED
Why the need to bring Princess Leia to front line combat?
Totally wasted Max Von Sidow. He did nothing, and has as much chops as anybody who has ever been in the franchise.
They called the main bad guy "Supreme Ruler." What is this, some kind of ****ty Japanese Star Wars knock off?
The CGI ********** SUCKED. I thought they were going back to the roots to make this thing believable, but they gave us ten minutes of a creepily expressive yellow cartoon lady smack in the middle.
What was that gibberish about the sun setting before the laser fired?
There was no need to bring that pilot back. It was just one more stretch of believability.
I really can't consider this a serious attempt at film. Its the same, slapped-together, who-gives-a-****-about-the-plot, blockbuster formula, cheaply glazed over with Star Wars imagery. Its not quite the advertising suck-fest that I thought it would be. They left a lot of merchandizing opportunities on the table by not throwing in a ton of knew ships and equipment, but nonetheless, this thing had all the feel of bad fan fiction, with a cheesy, squeaky-clean Disney commercial overtone that doesn't evenly remotely convey a complete universe, the thing that made Star Wars the greatest thing that ever happened to a kid.
******* YOU. I'm done.
