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Post #1346490

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Broom Kid
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
18-May-2020, 2:21 PM

I don’t know, nobody flying to Exegol seems particularly stressed by doing so. The “difficulty” is completely no-sold by the actors in the various cockpits, and is made apparent solely through visual noise and VFX filler substituting for storytelling.

The closest comparison in Star Wars I can think of is “There’s Always a Bigger Fish” from TPM, where neither of the Jedi seem too freaked out by giant leviathans coming after them. But in that instance, there’s at least Jar Jar expressing how dangerous and freaky this whole thing is, and some POV shots showing just how close the close calls are. There’s not even a Jar Jar analog for any of the “traveling to Exegol” scenes in TROS though. It’s just actors doing “business as usual” miming of flying in between VFX shots of a whole bunch of stuff on screen that ships aren’t really having any problem steering around.

Poe and Finn have more visible trouble escaping the ice planetoid than anyone in the movie has getting to or leaving Exegol.