Lucas didn't do the clones justice by treating them as nothing more than CGI cannon fodder in the prequel trilogy. An entire other team had to create more (and better) stories to explore the obvious moral dilemma of creating clone soldiers enslaved to the Republic's MIC.
The most basic shit. I could go on about this for a long time but it's late here so here's just some tidbits off the top of my head:
Who are the first order and why are they in charge? I can get that decapitating the Empire doesn't make it vanish, but how did one splinter group of them manage to build a better super weapon then the Emperor did? I am not saying this is necessarily bad, but they literally never explain how the galaxy got from 'emperor ded' to where it is now and the order seems to have just as many resources as the empire did. How did nothing at all change? The only explanation is that they wrote it that way not because it makes sense but because they felt it was a saver bet.
Why do bombers in space exist and how do their bombs fall down in space? That's on the same level as the Wing Commander movie where they had a 'we have to be quiet so the Kilrathy don't detect us' Uboat scene. In space. I know no one wants realistic space in popcorn movies, but it's a different matter to cut in sound effects and making ignoring physics a plot point. And yes the bombers in EP8 count for that because if they didn't have to 'drop' their bombs from 'above' they could be built less stupid and then they wouldn't all get blown up.
Hyperdrive has never worked like EP8 depicts it and everything about the slow chase is stupid as fuck. If this outcome is possible at all, someone would find out how to do it and weaponize it in a heartbeat.
Literally all of the rebellion (why are they still called that?) are in one place at the same time, to be picked off? How shit a guerilla army are they? Or alternatively, how is the First Order this effective at wiping them all out at the same time and how was that not plan A if they were? But please just look at the cool effects we made and don't think about it.
The emperor basically cast a 9th level summon to get a new fleet. Okay. Who is crewing those ships? Did they get paid overtime for hanging out for a few years? Did he clone them all? Make them with his force powers? If it's not literally magic, how does he keep any of this shit hidden?
And so on and so on. It's not that the story they wrote couldn't make sense, but they took so little time to think about the implications of what they wrote that they didn't bother to try to explain anything.
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It being a 2nd death star is actually genius and realistic if you ask me. They still have the plans. Just make a few adjustments to get rid of the now obvious vulnerabilities and you got a winner on your hands! The thing blew up a whole-ass plane,t probably more then one, it's a proven concept and there is no need to iterate on it beyond making improvements here or there.
That the emperor uses it as a trap for the rebellion and risks it all is overconfident, sure, but since it does have a shield and functioning weapon, it's not that overconfident. Even that he's there is explained because it's all a trap for Luke.
Meanwhile the EP7 weapon just works on completely different principles that seem to work differently then the rest of the setting. Like, imagine a fully powered original trilogy empire having that weapon, it would just be over.
The bombs "falling down' in space actually makes perfect sense. It's an airlock pointed at the Star destroyer. Explosive decompression would blow it out in whatever direction it's facing. There is no down in space, it just looks like it's falling cause of the camera angle.
That makes sense in that it is a plausible explanation for how it could be physically possible. But no explanation at all as to why you want to design a bomber to work like that, instead of like, shooting your explosive out like rockets or bullets or something. Surely they must have better ways of sending out bombs, right?
The "real" explanation is that all of the space flight in Star Wars is so heavily based on atmosphere dogfighting that it's effectively canon for SW that spaceships work like airplanes.
It's Star Wars. Nothing is made smart.
Yea see that's still hella stupid and I shouldn't need to explain why. I hope this is sarcasm, but since I have seen stuff like this defended before, I will explain why it#s stupid:
They clearly have ways to directly propel things in space. I mean duh, obviously. Instead of using explosive decompression, which would create a slow as fuck and also super inaccurate vector, just put an engine on the bombs and make them missiles.
If you are concerned with it being intercepted by heat seeking countermeasures, put the air you currently have in the launch bay into canisters on the bombs and let the canisters shoot the air out the back gradually, allowing for a more accurate delivery.
Next up, if these bombs have appreciable destructive power, which we see they do, they would weigh a lot. Explosive decompression would not impart that much force into them at all. Sure it would suck out a person in the bay, but the bombs would just lazily float out the hole eventually. Completely ineffective as a weapon.
It's still physically possible.
Okay. Say that they did build it like that. How dumb are the rebels to toss their Y and B wings, established technology for decades at the very least, in favor of those shit-ass bombers that use a clearly inferior delivery system for their main weapon? Does that make any more sense?
It's fucking Star Wars. None of it makes sense. They thought it would look cool. Star Wars isn't smart.
The point is that if you don't care about the basic internal consistency of your setting, it makes the setting worse.
For example, I don't begrudge the Fast and Furious series doing completely dumb, physics-defying shit with cars, like jumping them between skyscrapers. That's fine, because they never tried to be realistic in the first place. But you will notice that their cars don't suddenly transform into planes and fly (they may now, I haven't seen all of these movies, but the first few I was forced to sit through did not have that at least), because the movies are about car stunts and not planes. You don't see cars just do these jumps while not going fast. Because that's how car stunts work, you go fast and jump a thing.
In the same vein, Star Wars doesn't need to be overly realistic. And it absolutely isn't. I could complain about the prequels and how their depictions of shields are entirely inconsistent and and how it's dumb that Bobba Fetts ship has blasters that explode around the ship of Obi Wan a million times and never hit anything, but I wouldn't do that because I realize those are just meant to be cool visuals in a movie. The difference between these cool visuals and planes in space is that planes in space violates the basic rules they established for their setting. You are right that Star Wars doesn't have to be smart, but they should try to adhere to their own internal consistency as it has been established over all of the previous movies, games etc. It's not like it's hard to do either. Just make them look like torpedo bombers instead, or whatever.
It's consistent in that it's stolen from WW2 movies like any space battle stuff from the OT. I think that's what they were going for. It did seem a bit off but it didn't really big me much.
Yea, I know that's where the visuals are from. They just used to care that little tiny bit to adapt it for their setting.
I don't expect a 2001 space walk scene from them, but I do need that 10% base realism.
but yea, different things bug people to different degrees. I know a lot of people are bothered about the force making no sense. Which yea, it totally doesn't, but I personally don't care there because it's their magic and magic never had to make sense anywhere.
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So basically the sequel trilogy took the bad parts of the eu and made them into movies, the first order is basically the pennestar alignment and palpatine controls the dark empire mixed eith the darkspawn shit
They should just have used Thrawn, or made mention of him as the guy who rebuilt the Empire as a threat. But we can't have bad guy aliens I guess.
This is the biggest one. This little tidbit completely invalidates ALL the technology we see in Star Wars. Why have Star Destroyers? Strap a hyperdrive to a rock. Why build a Death Star? Strap a hyperdrive to a rock. The world simply would not look like it does if that technology worked the way they showed. There would be no Navies, there would be no space fights at all, it would be stealth tech and first-strike capability, with nation states lobbing rocks at each other from light-years away. They literally broke the star wars in Star Wars. FFS why would there have been a trench run in the first movie? STRAP A FUCKING HYPERDRIVE TO A ROCK AND 9/11 THAT SHIT.