@yotsuya
Several of those questions about TFA are answered in the book. That is, if you care you know the answers to them, but you probably don’t.Stuff like the relationship between the New Republic and the Resistance and why Han and Chewie found the Falcon so fast is explained in the movie as well. Also a line or two isn’t enough to please everyone. Some people needs things to be fleshed out a little more.
A slightly different opening crawl, a different selection of scenes (some of the stuff was filmed but cut… the BR does not have even a fraction of the deleted scenes and doesn’t have any of the good ones) and just a tiny bit more logical thought and this movie could have been error free and great. But that isn’t Abrams style. And no one should have to read the book to understand the movie. There is nothing in the movie about the republic having rotating capitals, nothing about it having a tiny fleet. Some of this can be inferred, but mostly it just doesn’t make sense. Abrams gave us the characters, the environment, but he failed to deliver the scope. His Star Wars is small. Lucas’s Star Wars is epic in scale. He has the First Order destroy one system and makes it sound like they destroyed the Republic. In Lucas’s Star Wars, Coruscant could be wiped out and the fleet would still exist, the regional governments would still exist.
You got me on the fleet part but beyond that reading the novelization isn’t necessary.
And the entire section of Rey and Finn escaping on the Falcon is full of holes. How did they evade the Star Destroyer?
Same way Luke evaded the small fleet that surrounded the Hoth System…no one really knows but at least in this case there is only one Star Destroyer vs many with the addition of a Super Star Destroyer/s.
Were they not tracking their ships on the surface?
That’s a thing in SW? Since when?
The Falcon should have been chased out of the atmosphere and jumped to hyperspace and then the hyperdrive fails and dumps them someplace for Han and Chewy to find (that could have been done in the current running time).
Admittedly that’s how I would have written it but that doesn’t mean the way it was done doesn’t work.
As it stands they fly into space and Han and Chewy pick them up instead of the New Order. What were Han and Chewy doing at Jakku and why didn’t the Star Destroyer bother them?
I think they were somewhere else when they finally tracked down the Falcon. This does however continue the problem of Hyperspace being inconsistent but it’s whatever as this is a problem that will never be fixed.
EDIT:
I just remembered the one guy on Yavin IV who tracked ships with some device and that scene in ESB where Vader tells someone to monitor Skywalker and allow him to land. But I don’t remember if they spotted his ship or tracked it. And if they tracked it when exactly did he pop up on their scanners? Rey and Finn were far beyond the atmosphere of Jakku so it’s possible the scanners don’t have that type of range.