Lacks of imagination

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2019)

I love Star Wars. I've watched every movie and played many of the games. I love it's universe. I didn't like that Disney was behind it, but I coped with it.
The movie is entertaining and I won't get in details about performances, effects or things like that. I think there's plenty of critics that talk about it so I won't be original.
However, I'm writing this because one thing that I really can't help keeping for myself. The main antagonist is pure garbage. Not Kylo Ren itself, but the First Order.
They don't make any sense. How it is possible that the New Republic didn't know what was happening? Come on! They literally just have won a ver hard rebellion with everything against them. Where is the senate? Where is the political part that play a big part in previous movies? Did they just vanished in thin air? Where is the republican army? Seriously, when the republic was at war against the Federation of Commerce and the separatist there were very big battles, many plots at play.
In this movie the story is just lazy and formulaic. "OK, now, OUT OF NOWHERE, we are going to have a powerful but absolutely secretive empire in the darkness with no real reason to exist whatsoever and that strikes so efficiently that put in danger the New Republic in one minute".
With that massive amount of money I believe they can think up something better.