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
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
Nobody should be allowed to make media for nerds unless they’re also nerds ugh
you get the first thing to be creative and do whatever you want, after that it belongs to everyone and you’re just a steward
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.
