Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 12 Reasons It's Better Than The Prequels
9. No Boring Politics
The Star Wars prequel trilogy concentrated way too much on politics, especially in The Phantom Menace, with discussions about trade taxes, votes of no-confidence, and senate negotiations. The problem was obvious: if so much of the films is reliant on the political dialogue, those discussions should at the very least be engaging and easy to understand, but they were neither. The politics ended up seriously slowing down the films and created scenes that bored the kids and confused the adults. The Force Awakens could easily have included politics in it; after all, we are told there is a New Republic, a First Order, and a Resistance, and we still have no idea how the three overlap. If the heroes lead an actual government, why do they have rebels? And why do the villains have a government of their own? We never get answers to these questions, but ultimately the filmmakers decided that it really doesnt matter. And in a possible jab at the prequels, the First Order destroys a large portion of the Republic, including a planet (Hosnian Prime) that looked suspiciously like Coruscant, A.K.A. the planet of boring Jedi Council and Senate meetings.
