Sorry to keep banging on about this, but this really grinds my gears. Just to point out how poorly concieved TLJ is, and how it undermines the earlier films, here’s an image:
The size of the Supremacy is 60,000 meters. The size of the first Death Star is 160,000 meters. The Death Star is bigger, but not that much bigger. Why did the rebels have to steal the plans, and send a small group of rebel ships to destroy the Death Star? Why not just take multiple cruisers piloted by droids, and have them hyperspace through it, destroying the space station? That would have surely saved a lot of lifes.
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DrDre, I accidentally added my comments to your post when I meant to quote. I’ve restored your post and quoted further down the page. That’s the reason it shows your post was edited. Sorry about that.
AnchorheadDrDre, once again you’re nitpicking in an overtly pedantic fashion simply designed to pick apart The Last Jedi, and you’re being blinkered to the fact that the Star Wars Saga has always been a space ‘fantasy’ rather than sci-fi.
I’ve already given ample explanation why the argument against Rey’s sudden Force powers is anything but pedantic, but if you want to accept such blatant disregard for Lucas’ creation and the subtext, and themes therein, in order to endorse what I percieve to be an endless string of ever more diluted copies of an original creation, be my guest.
If you’d been the man you are now the first time you had seen Empire Strikes Back then I am sure you would be the one telling everyone how ridiculous it was that the Snowspeeders kept flying in front of the AT AT Walkers, when all they needed to do was flank around and attack them from the rear. They would have had all day to shoot them and fire their cables.
I’m getting a bit tired of you playing it ad hominum. Restrict your comments to the films. Those are the rules of this forum. You would do well to read, and digest them. Perhaps it would be a good idea to come up with a good counterargument, rather than mostly restricting yourself to qualifying other people’s arguments.
What’s to stop some of those AT AT’s from just turning around and shooting the snow speeders coming from the rear, while the rest just march on to the base? The speeders still have to fly around the AT AT’s to use the cables, and shooting the AT AT’s has little effect on their armor, unless they manage to get them to the ground.
If you’d been the man you are now you’d have failed to accept that Han, Chewie and Leia could have walked around in the Slug cave ‘in space’ without suits on.
This is a space fantasy, all you’re doing is killing it for yourself and others.
I can accept people walking around in a space slug, which apparently have some sort of atmosphere inside their bodies, if those are the in-universe rules. I can’t accept people walking around in a space slug in one film, and then not being able to walk in a space slug in the next film, which you seem prepared to do.