RL: I think it goes back to what we said about it not being rooted in the personal. But why were they firing on those planets? What was the point? “Today we will destroy the Republic.” It comes in the middle of a big action scene.With the Starkiller base, there were no stakes. JM: Maybe that’s what’s missing in the Han Solo scene. If you imagine “I am your father” in the middle of the Hoth scene. To his credit, George Lucas says he spread them apart because he knew one would distract from the other. RL: You had the big Hoth battle sequence up front, and then the dramatic bit at the end of the movie. It’s like you said earlier about Empire and the “I am your father” moment. JM: The Starkiller was largely extraneous to the plot. It wasn’t much, but I liked that it could fire a series of beams at different planets. RL: It’s telling that they had to actually show you a diagram, isn’t it? They couldn’t let the power of it just speak for itself. It gave Han Solo a funny line, I’ll give it that. JM: But it still didn’t give me a feeling.
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