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The sequel trilogy had a severe issue with the scale of the overall conflict that the other trilogies didn't. The OT makes it very clear that the empire controls most of the galaxy and the rebels are the underdogs in the war, being forced to operate out of remote bases and use guerilla tactics. The PT was an all out brawl between two roughly comparable major galactic powers. The resistance in the ST was a vaguely defined paramilitary organization controlled by the new republic except not really while the first order was a massive military force that literally came out of nowhere. The resistance then gets it's shit kicked in by the end of the second movie until it's revealed in the third that they also apparently have massive military support from the rest of the galaxy because ??? and then they proceed to defeat the first order because...uhhh...they just do I guess. It's uniquely bad in a way I haven't really seen before.