• FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      51
      ·
      4 days ago

      I only watched the first two but it’s remarkable how it’s never made clear exactly what the scale of the conflict is. They treat the first order exactly like the empire even though they should be a lot smaller. I don’t know why there’s a resistance when they support the government that’s already in place.

      • They’re just so bad on every level it’s remarkable. I can’t get over how fucking stupid it is to have the first one basically be a shot for shot remake of A New Hope. We didn’t need it, we already had A New Hope! Then i think the next one is the one that I basically think of as the OJ Simpson car chase, but in space.

        Like the fleet’s chugging along being chased by the other fleet until they like run out of gas or something? Uh okay? That’s dumb as fuck? And the cast just like leaves and comes back?? Uh? Okay?

        And then iirc they run out of gas and that’s when they’re like okay im going to turn my ship into a relativistic superweapon… which like just really breaks the setting for me because using a hyperdrive as a weapon is like, war changing technology that entirely obviated the need for the fucking death star or starkiller base or whatever, like, you could just make huge hardened ships and have droids hyperdrive them into a planet’s core at that point, why not do that instead, that’s better than a death star!

        Like it just raises so many questions of well why the fuck didn’t anybody do that before? Or ever after? And if they had just done that at the start of the fucking movie they could have saved the entire rest of the fleet AND THEIR PRECIOUS SPACE GAS

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          30
          ·
          4 days ago

          god the fucking chase where they can leave and come back but the bad guys can’t jump an interdictor in the path of the fleeing ships

          people thought of the hyperdive missile thing years ago and there’s books in the bin that got a little into “that’s not how those work”

          and people like rogue one or whatever but all the new shit has depictions of ships visible from the ground doing hyperjumps which just completely undercuts the drama of the escape from tatooine because you’re not supposed to fucking be able to jump from gravity wells.

          fuuuuck everybody actually in charge of star wars fuck disney i want those Sword of the Jedi books they were gonna publish about Jaina Solo

        • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          ·
          4 days ago

          In Rian Johnson’s defence, supposedly he wanted Leia to do the hyperdrive ram and it was changed to Holdo later by executive meddling.

          Which would excuse why it’s never been done before, because only a powerful force sensitive could time it right. Like Luke hitting the exhaust port etc.

          Too early you just hyperdrive away, too fast the shield/tractor beams/gravity well if taking planets prevents it.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      4 days ago

      The first was tolerable (not good), the second felt like rushed ideas mish-mashed together and the last…it made zero fucking sense at all. It’s like that wrote that one in a cocaine fuelled week stuck in the writers room.

      • ...m...@ttrpg.network
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        4 days ago

        …the first was manic fanfic; i suppose whether that’s tolerable depends on the audience…

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        The chuds whined so hard that Kylo Ren wasn’t a Mary Sue so of course he got a rushed redemption arc and Rey had to be rewritten to magic pixie Kylo back to the light.

        The whole right would have blown a gasket and riot in the streets if Rey just rightfully incinerated Kylo with force lightning in the last jedi.