I’m reposting this here because it will be fun watching some of you try to explain it away or insist it’s not the same thing.
It isn’t the existence of those that bothers me, it’s the number and density of them at the beginning of TFA that I disliked. Had they been more spread out, and/or with a couple of them feeling less coincidental, it would have been far better.
STAR WARS had a lot of plot conveniences
- R2 and C3P0 happen to land somewhere conveniently on the side of the planet where Luke is
R2 piloted the escape pod to the location Leia told him to go. The escape pod was navigable, unlike the TIE fighter Poe and Finn were in in TFA, where the TIE fighter was shot and crash landed on Jakku.
Where is the movie is it shown to be navigable? Nowhere. What we see on screen is an escape pod falling towards the planet. And, by the way its wobbling around, it certainly isn’t being controlled.