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The point I was making was that the example you used isn't just a case of "look at this sudden and blatant metaphor" but was the final piece of a continual set of visual storytelling that had been going on the entire time that made it have a more significant context.
Insofar as your other point, the original trilogy was also in a position where the first Death Star's destruction of a planet was just a cold, matter-of-fact military operation and a demonstration of power. They weren't even hitting a Rebel target. They were just using it as a convenient demonstration, unlike
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Insofar as your other point, the original trilogy was also in a position where the first Death Star's destruction of a planet was just a cold, matter-of-fact military operation and a demonstration of power. They weren't even hitting a Rebel target. They were just using it as a convenient demonstration, unlike
The First Order, whose military weapon Starkiller base emerges from the Unknown Regions and with its reveal, literally wipes the current reformed government of the New Republic off of the map, and criples the main bulk of their military fleet in one attack. The Galactic Empire never cut the head off of a government like that, because Palpatine took it over through subversion and playing both sides to his own ends.
You're looking at a rising military force looking to reclaim its dignity and previous power, vs. the initial rise and presence of the Galactic Empire. If anything, the space Nazi comparisons are vastly more apropos for this than they would for the previous films, so I don't really see what's wrong with clearly drawing those comparisons in presentation. There's a lot more more to that speech than just making sure you know the bad guys are "space Nazis" and Hux's speech — while obviously invoking that parallel, is also making a speech for a first strike that's wholly unlike anything we've before — both in scale and context. It makes sense to use a different WWII comparison than Star Wars had previously done, since so much of Star Wars' military conflicts are like WWII films already.
tl;dr - I fail to see why using a reference to Hitler's Nazi speeches was an issue, since it's tonally appropriate to the situation, and shows the difference in the extreme fervor of the uprising First Order as compared to the military devotion of the already-dominant Galactic Empire.
You're looking at a rising military force looking to reclaim its dignity and previous power, vs. the initial rise and presence of the Galactic Empire. If anything, the space Nazi comparisons are vastly more apropos for this than they would for the previous films, so I don't really see what's wrong with clearly drawing those comparisons in presentation. There's a lot more more to that speech than just making sure you know the bad guys are "space Nazis" and Hux's speech — while obviously invoking that parallel, is also making a speech for a first strike that's wholly unlike anything we've before — both in scale and context. It makes sense to use a different WWII comparison than Star Wars had previously done, since so much of Star Wars' military conflicts are like WWII films already.
tl;dr - I fail to see why using a reference to Hitler's Nazi speeches was an issue, since it's tonally appropriate to the situation, and shows the difference in the extreme fervor of the uprising First Order as compared to the military devotion of the already-dominant Galactic Empire.
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