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Post #891032

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John Doom
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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29-Dec-2015, 4:33 PM

Anchorhead said:
That said; I’m also aware that Star Wars77 had more than it’s fair share of contrived plot points and plot holes. I accept them, embrace the story, and go on the adventure. However…

  • An escape pod the size of an SUV falls to a planet, sometime later the Empire decides to go look for it, and within minutes the stormtroopers are standing next to it? Weak.
  • The pod lands very near Luke’s house and he just happens to buy the droid that was inside? Later it ends up at Ben’s, who also just happens to have the lightsaber the totally random farm boy’s dad used to own? Contrived.

  • The Death Star - constructed specifically to blow-up planets - has to go around a planet before it can…blow up a different planet? WTF?

  • The Death Star is the size of a moon, yet our heroes seem to be able to walk everywhere they need to be in what appears to be just a few minutes. Unrealistic.

  • A small exhaust port on a moon-sized space station can lead the entire station disintegrating? Contrived.

There are others I’m sure I’ve forgotten over the years. My point is just this; The intense criticism of The Force Awakens can easily be applied to Star Wars77. I’m at a loss as to why one gets a pass and one does not.

So far, to me it seems ANH has barely any plot hole compared to TFA, probably because it was written in more than 3 years, but it all depends on how much one nitpicks plots, I guess. About ANH:
-the Empire decided to go looking for the escape pod because it turns out it may contain the DS’s plans;
-the droids, Luke and Obi-wan all get together because of the Force: Obi-wan says throught the movie that the Force partially controls ones’ actions, so it acts kind of like Fate in epics, forcing people to get together (that’s the same reason I kind of accepted a lot of minor things in TFA, like Finn taking Poe’s jacket so that it could’ve been recognized by BB8);
-what’s wrong with the Death Star having to move close to a planet to destroy it?
-we don’t know how much time they actually spend on the DS, and they use elevators too, with only Obi-wan actually moving to the core (and taking a lot to reach it);
-the exhaust port? Everything has its weakness 😄
It’s just my opinion, but the more I try to find plot holes in ANH, the more I see it was actually pretty well written.