Another thing that bothers me. The whole “map to Luke” thing.

It’s amazing how certain films can “get away” with stuff if the overall experience is viewed as a positive.

Independence Day is a perfect example. You can pick at the flaws all day long, and the flaws are most certainly there—but in the end, it’s almost as if none of the flaws really matter. The set-ups, the payoffs, the editing, the action, the pacing, the rhythm of the story—these things work in spite of other things that don’t. Things that would take one out of the story if the overall experience were weaker. We all know Independence Day sucked on some level—it’s kind of like a report card with a “C-“ in spelling while all the other grades are “A’s.”

As much as I love TFA, the “map to Luke” thing drives me insane.

So there’s a missing piece to a map to Luke that the “resistance” is trying to piece together. So let’s say they get it pieced together. Great. Now they have a map that may or may not lead them to Luke, who is undoubtedly a powerful Jedi. But Luke hasn’t been seen in years, and given the circumstances of his “walking away,” his motivations, state of mind, and attitudes toward the “resistance” are far from a sure thing.

Besides that, Luke’s only human. He’s not Superman. Let’s go find Luke! And then do…what, exactly?

Let’s waste valuable resources on finding one man when we have a solar-system destroying behemoth breathing down our necks.

The “map to Luke” thing is just as stupid as anything in the prequels, but it doesn’t matter because TFA is great in spite of it.