watchnerd
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SPOILER ALERT DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE
1. Lea, seemingly dying tragically with much pathos at the hand (or nearly so) of her son in the vacuum of space, manifests previously unseen force powers that not only protect her from instant death in via decompression, but allow her to fly back to a ship that has presumably traveled a significant distance* since the bridge got exploded.
And aside from a seemingly meaningful death for the character, she turns into a super hero.
(*Yes, I realize that whatever forward momentum the ship had would be retained by Lea, so their relative forward velocities, unimpeded by friction, should be intact, but Lea also had some perpendicular velocity which, even at a shallow angle, should have amounted to a large hypotenuse to traverse).
2. Snokes is the biggest wussy emperor ever, a complete paper tiger that relies upon 25 foot holo image of himself to scare people. No wonder he needs 8 body guards. Palpatine, or Vader, would have detected the saber rattling at their side, or Kylo's traitorous thoughts, and fish gutted the traitorous emo dweeb instantaneously. And, given the Sith* mode of succession, would have constantly be on the look out for such a move.
(*Yes, I realize Snokes isn't a Sith. Maybe that's why he sucks.)
3. The Rebel are strategic morons. They lose huge portions of their forces in direct frontal assaults against superior forces, so much so that by the end of the movie there is only a rag tag group left.
Not to mention that a war of attrition against the First Order is idiotic given their industrial base. "Hey we can take out a dreadnaught, those things are fleet killers!". Yeah, well, guess what, the First Order has more of them. It's like deciding to attack a US Navy Nimitz-class carrier battle group because you think you can take out a carrier to win a war, while ignoring that the US Navy has 9 more.
4. The Rebels are smoking their own dope in terms of public support. For having a seasoned politician like Lea with them, you'd think they would do better.
"Oh, hey, we just need to hold the big cannon off the blast door for 5-10 minutes while we make a call for help and the galaxy comes to our aid!"
First of all, even given lightspeed hyperdrives and whatnot -- 5-10 minutes? Really? You expect a naval armada capable of fighting through an First Order task force, as well as a space marine expeditionary force, to arrive to save your bacon that quickly? How, logistically, does this make any sense?
Not to mention that nobody answered the call, so maybe, just maybe, the public isn't dying to support your cause.
5. Jedi powers are now ridiculously over-powered.
In the original trilogy, Luke (the Chosen One) had to go through extreme training to learn to be able to levitate his X-wing from the swamps of Dagoba, failing multiple times.
But Rey comes up and moves a pile of boulders, with no previous training, without even breaking a sweat.
Snoke can not only force-strangle and force-throw people in the same room, but from across the galaxy.
Given these god-like telekinetic powers, why do they even bother with lightsabers? They should just be telekinetically skull-crushing their enemies like melons.
6. Empire / First Order Achilles Heels
Why is it that ever major bad guy war machine not only has a single point of failure in terms of a vulnerable reactor thingy that will cripple the whole system if you can get to it, but it's left unguarded.
Every. Single. Time.
7. Empire / First Order worker safety
Why are there these giant cavernous spaces inside bad guy war machines which, aside from being wastes of space, are bridged with perilous gangplanks with no side rails.
Is this some kind of hazing ritual?
8. Blaster proof armor
Captain Phasma's armor is apparently blaster proof, but the run of the mill storm trooper armor sure isn't. Uhhh...why not? And even if it's expensive, you'd think the officers would wear it instead of running around in neo-Nazi leather gear.
1. Lea, seemingly dying tragically with much pathos at the hand (or nearly so) of her son in the vacuum of space, manifests previously unseen force powers that not only protect her from instant death in via decompression, but allow her to fly back to a ship that has presumably traveled a significant distance* since the bridge got exploded.
And aside from a seemingly meaningful death for the character, she turns into a super hero.
(*Yes, I realize that whatever forward momentum the ship had would be retained by Lea, so their relative forward velocities, unimpeded by friction, should be intact, but Lea also had some perpendicular velocity which, even at a shallow angle, should have amounted to a large hypotenuse to traverse).
2. Snokes is the biggest wussy emperor ever, a complete paper tiger that relies upon 25 foot holo image of himself to scare people. No wonder he needs 8 body guards. Palpatine, or Vader, would have detected the saber rattling at their side, or Kylo's traitorous thoughts, and fish gutted the traitorous emo dweeb instantaneously. And, given the Sith* mode of succession, would have constantly be on the look out for such a move.
(*Yes, I realize Snokes isn't a Sith. Maybe that's why he sucks.)
3. The Rebel are strategic morons. They lose huge portions of their forces in direct frontal assaults against superior forces, so much so that by the end of the movie there is only a rag tag group left.
Not to mention that a war of attrition against the First Order is idiotic given their industrial base. "Hey we can take out a dreadnaught, those things are fleet killers!". Yeah, well, guess what, the First Order has more of them. It's like deciding to attack a US Navy Nimitz-class carrier battle group because you think you can take out a carrier to win a war, while ignoring that the US Navy has 9 more.
4. The Rebels are smoking their own dope in terms of public support. For having a seasoned politician like Lea with them, you'd think they would do better.
"Oh, hey, we just need to hold the big cannon off the blast door for 5-10 minutes while we make a call for help and the galaxy comes to our aid!"
First of all, even given lightspeed hyperdrives and whatnot -- 5-10 minutes? Really? You expect a naval armada capable of fighting through an First Order task force, as well as a space marine expeditionary force, to arrive to save your bacon that quickly? How, logistically, does this make any sense?
Not to mention that nobody answered the call, so maybe, just maybe, the public isn't dying to support your cause.
5. Jedi powers are now ridiculously over-powered.
In the original trilogy, Luke (the Chosen One) had to go through extreme training to learn to be able to levitate his X-wing from the swamps of Dagoba, failing multiple times.
But Rey comes up and moves a pile of boulders, with no previous training, without even breaking a sweat.
Snoke can not only force-strangle and force-throw people in the same room, but from across the galaxy.
Given these god-like telekinetic powers, why do they even bother with lightsabers? They should just be telekinetically skull-crushing their enemies like melons.
6. Empire / First Order Achilles Heels
Why is it that ever major bad guy war machine not only has a single point of failure in terms of a vulnerable reactor thingy that will cripple the whole system if you can get to it, but it's left unguarded.
Every. Single. Time.
7. Empire / First Order worker safety
Why are there these giant cavernous spaces inside bad guy war machines which, aside from being wastes of space, are bridged with perilous gangplanks with no side rails.
Is this some kind of hazing ritual?
8. Blaster proof armor
Captain Phasma's armor is apparently blaster proof, but the run of the mill storm trooper armor sure isn't. Uhhh...why not? And even if it's expensive, you'd think the officers would wear it instead of running around in neo-Nazi leather gear.
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All that negativity over a 20 second scene, she's Lea Queen Of The Force, she can do most anything. Why do you try to plug in all sort's of "whys or hows" into a fantasy/action/adventure flix. You want some sort of accurate future scifi look somewhere else.
