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ParanoidObsessive posted...

which is part of the New Republic

The Resistance isn't part of the New Republic, though. That's kind of *why* there's a Resistance.

The New Republic was a largely pacifistic entity - the Resistance formed as a militant group because they felt the Republic was not taking seriously the threat the New Republic posed.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The math doesn't even remotely add up.

I fail to see how that in any way disproves my argument.

I mean, the Empire controlled most of the core worlds in the galaxy, had a massive military, and was fighting against a rebellion that cobbled together whatever they could from planets - largely in the outer rim - where they had influence. You haven't disputed that. The First Order has a massive fleet, filled with multiple king-sized ships like the Dreadnought or the Supremacy while the Resistance only has three capital ships to their name. That part's not even debatable.

Saying "It doesn't make sense that the First Order can build bigger stuff than the Empire and the Resistance is smaller than the Rebellion" doesn't disprove anything I said.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's a VERY sad day when the logic of the prequels actually holds together better than the sequels, but that's the world we live in.

Strongly disagree. Not in the sense that you're shortchanging the sequels (there are some obvious logical issues there), but in the sense that I think you're forgetting just how completely nonsensical the prequels were. The Phantom Menace relied on some massive leaps of logic just to keep the plot going, Attack of the Clones didn't have logical gaps so much as no logic at all, and the overarching storyline - which was supposed to be this brilliant chessmaster-gambit by Palpatine - was so incredibly stupid that it could have been found out in two minutes had anyone on either side of the conflict had more than two brain cells to bang together. Revenge of the Sith is the only movie that manages to make some sort of logical sense if only by dint of the fact that Lucas basically took the end of Attack of the Clones and the start of A New Hope, drew a straight line directly between them with no twists or turns, and called it a movie (and even then Anakin still manages to toss in a few incredibly bizarre decisions, just in case we were worried that these movies might start making sense).

The sequels have their issues, but let's not pretend that the prequels weren't steaming dumpster fires, *especially* when it comes to logical consistency.
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