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- The Holdo maneuver is a one in a million,
This is something that needs to be retconned out as well…after the pretty visual effect wore off, everyone immediately asked “well why don’t they just ram everything if a smaller ship can take out an entire fleet in one shot.”
The “one in a million” excuse doesn’t work since they can just launch every ship over and over and over until it works. If you only need one sniper to take out an ENTIRE evil government, why waste time with waging war, just keep sending snipers.
It could be that they wanted to keep themselves on the morally pure side of rebellion in attempts to save lives rather than be constant kamikaze terrorists… context matters, right?
But if they wanted to preserve their own lives, couldn’t they just send droids to lightspeed ram ships? Droids have already been established as being intelligent enough to pilot ships on their own, so why couldn’t they just send unmanned lightspeed missiles to blow up whatever threat was in their way?
Lightspeed ramming was a dumb idea to begin with, and the “one in a million” justification only raises further questions. I agree that Finn’s line should be cut, but if I was making TLJ I would find some other way to blow up Snoke’s ship.
I mean, the movies generally treat droids as being alive, especially our main heroic characters. So, that still wouldn’t work.
And even if they did, that would still paint them more as terrorists and make it harder for the general populace to rally and support them, even after defeating the Empire/First Order. That was decently established with Saw Gerrera in Rogue One and Rebels.
The idea behind what they do was established in A New Hope, the dangers and reasons why not to do it were illustrated, so i don’t feel like it’s as dumb an idea as presented. Especially looking at the randomness of its efficacy and the desperation that caused the tactic to be used.
