Do you ever think about how, aesthetically as well as perhaps meta-narratively, the First Order and the Resistance are attempted rebrands of The Empire and Rebellion? Or about how both seem to operate on the idea that they’re fighting for glory like their predecessors in the days of old but all they really do is feed the war machine that allows the rich to get richer and the poor to get desperate? How, of all the ST characters, Hux and Poe are the only ones born when the Empire was still a thing? How the superiors of both factions seem to regard their younger officers as a little too gung-ho? 

Idk, I just think there’s something interesting going on in respect to how these two sides are so caught up in replicating the glory of the past.