Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: 12 Missed Opportunities We'll NEVER Get Over

9. The First Order's Inconsistent Scale

During Force Awakens it's hammered home that the FO are a fringe group, hollowing out a planet away from the rest of the galaxy to create a giant super-weapon, and managing to fire it. Hux's speech about "the last day of the Republic!" comes across as unhinged, and the takeaway is that Rey and co. will really have to mount the offensive to stop this antagonistic force gaining steam.

Then The Last Jedi begins, and the opening crawl states that "the First Order reigns". But do they?

Multiple planets were destroyed, but without insight into what systems or hierarchies were housed there - and not knowing the FO's numbers outside that one Hux scene - it's impossible to know how much damage was done, or could be done.

After all, we're only minutes after the events of the first film when things pick back up.

Still, we have to buy this out-of-nowhere, hiding-on-a-planet faction are suddenly as big as the Empire, rendering Luke and the old squad's efforts meaningless, as if this is the case, the actions of those characters did nothing.

A MUCH better way to go would've been stopping the First Order from getting off the ground, with the potential of "another Empire" forever being their end goal.

Instead their capabilities vary wildly depending on who's behind each movie's script, and they fail as a meaningful antagonistic force.