Snoke … Looked bad.
Totally agree. His appearance is one part of the movie I can’t defend. People calling him a Gollum/Voldemort hybrid are spot on. And the CGI was 2005 standards.
Max_Rebo said:
C-3PO … there was something off about the costume, it seemed less shiny
This bugged me too!
Max_Rebo said:
One of my biggest problems is several populated worlds are destroyed, Leia feels it through the force, so you’ve got to assume Luke felt it, yet he does nothing, just stays on his island waiting for someone to solve his map puzzle. I would hope that might bring him to his senses and make him take action, but maybe he was too far away to feel it through the force?
Maybe Luke knew he had to let events play out and wait for the force to bring people and events to the right time and place? Although on the face of it sitting on an island while the galaxy falls apart is a dumb (and cowardly) plan, we can’t always place ‘normal’ logic on the actions of wise old Jedi.
Remember what happened last time he ran off to save the day too soon? He got his hand chopped off and his best friend was encased in carbonite.
Max_Rebo said:
The falcon leaves Jakku and is immediately picked up by Solo, so either he was in the area or he was somehow able to detect it and instantly arrive via hyperspace, he said it was easy to track, but tracking ships from a long distance isn’t really a thing that can be done in the Star Wars universe (I can’t think of other examples from the films), but maybe he had previously installed a homing beacon.
I figure Han has tracking devices constantly searching for the Falcon’s unique flight signature. But I agree he got there pretty damn quick and him just being ‘in the area’ is lame. But did you notice how everything seemed to happen quicker in this movie. People travel light years in seconds (whereas in the old films they needed a chess board to pass the time). I put it down as a filmmaking decision but it did make the galaxy feel a little too small and convenient for me.
Max_Rebo said:
Hyperdrive now seems to be instantaneous to get anywhere, or maybe they just didn’t travel very far, there were no travelling scenes, just felt wrong. But it’s hard to know how far they travelled as we are never told where Jakku is in relation to anything else.
You did notice 😃
Max_Rebo said:
Why did Captain Phasma have authority to drop the shields for the whole planet, and why did nobody notice that it had happened?
Agree. This was a big one for me. If she’s so badass and loyal to the first order, she would have taken a laser bolt to the head before agreeing to shut down those shields and effectively destroying Starkiller and saving the resistance.