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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7689551" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>Right, and a new megaweapon might be fun. But a planetoid super weapon that shoots big beams and destroys planets but is blown up by a small fighter? That's when it crosses the line from trope to "been there, done that". </p><p></p><p>Even if you include the battle droid ship from Episode One and the super star destroyer in the "super weapon" camp, only 4/6ths had superweapons and half were planet destroyers and spherical. </p><p></p><p>Why not something akin to the star forge from <em>Knights of the Old Republic</em>? Or a starkiller that just destroys stars and leaves freezing planets behind? Or something that makes use of the Force showing it's not insignificant in comparison to the Death Star. </p><p>Or any of a dozen new ideas that are something different than the Death Star just turned up to 11?</p><p></p><p>Even the movie itself seems to treat the megaweapon as irrelevant and tacked-on. The Starkiller Base also just seems to come out of left field. Halfway through the movie the evil bad guys just develop this new scheme. "Oh yeah, and we have this crazy weapon." Why were they even bothering with anything in the first half when they were just going to obliterate the rest?</p><p>The map is somewhat important, but at the end that doesn't seem to matter since they were quite willing to just destroy the Resistance anyway. (How they knew where the Resistance were is another matter.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7689551, member: 37579"] Right, and a new megaweapon might be fun. But a planetoid super weapon that shoots big beams and destroys planets but is blown up by a small fighter? That's when it crosses the line from trope to "been there, done that". Even if you include the battle droid ship from Episode One and the super star destroyer in the "super weapon" camp, only 4/6ths had superweapons and half were planet destroyers and spherical. Why not something akin to the star forge from [I]Knights of the Old Republic[/I]? Or a starkiller that just destroys stars and leaves freezing planets behind? Or something that makes use of the Force showing it's not insignificant in comparison to the Death Star. Or any of a dozen new ideas that are something different than the Death Star just turned up to 11? Even the movie itself seems to treat the megaweapon as irrelevant and tacked-on. The Starkiller Base also just seems to come out of left field. Halfway through the movie the evil bad guys just develop this new scheme. "Oh yeah, and we have this crazy weapon." Why were they even bothering with anything in the first half when they were just going to obliterate the rest? The map is somewhat important, but at the end that doesn't seem to matter since they were quite willing to just destroy the Resistance anyway. (How they knew where the Resistance were is another matter.) [/QUOTE]
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