In the original Star Wars, the Death Star was looming overhead here, there’s no obvious reason why they could not have fled. It avoids raising the question of why the Resistance did not begin evacuating their base during the third act when they know they are the target.One wonders whether such intersystem spectacles are common in this world, because no one who witnessed the destruction had the slightest trouble identifying what was happening. The official Lucasfilm canon answer is that Starkiller Base created a “space-time disruption,” an obvious bandaid answer to apologize for a wanton move on the filmmakers’ part. It avoids depicting the Hosnian system clearly visible to the naked eye, very large in the sky, from lightyears away.Gone are the awkward questions about why the planet was still in daylight when it fired the first time during the second act, and whether the base is mobile. Starkiller Base is depicted as functioning in an intuitive way: it drains the nearby star (or “the Sun,” as Finn describes it), which covers it in darkness, and then fires on the Republic Capitol.It alleviates the plot’s very close parallel with the original Star Wars.Han taking a risk motivated by love for his son which brings about costly failure is a dark mirror of Vader doing the same in Return of the Jedi and ending up helping to save the galaxy.Starkiller Base firing upon the Hosnian system in the third act links it very closely to Kylo Ren’s resolution toward the dark side as he kills Han.The First Order catching up to Han and Rey is sufficient motivation for Finn to decide not to leave, without the Hosnian system being destroyed.
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