The whole "light rises to meet dark" to explain how powerful Rey can instantly be was one of the worst explanations for an in-universe walking deus ex machina since Wheel of Time and the T'averen. Not even Anakin was that powerful, he actually paid with the loss of a limb the first time he tried to face an (apprentice) sith lord, and that's after 10 years of Jedi training.
Apparently also both imperial and rebel ships accelerate (I assume they were accelerating since, you know, you there is inertia in space, I'm not entirely sure the director was aware of that) at exactly the same speed. Not to mention apparently they are very slow, no more than 2 or 3 km/s otherwise they would have hit lightspeed or beyond before the 18 hours were up. Also, you build a superweapon that can carry septillions of Watts of energy through hyperspace and your cannons cannot hit something 10-20 km ahead? Besides, again, I'm not sure Johnson knows this, but there is inertia in space, you can fire your plasma cannons alright, they are not going to fizzle out in 20 km.
Also, jokes overstaying their welcome, making you cringe or coming at innapropriate moments, to the point you would expect Rey to crack one as Snoke dies. I would have expect Hux could be a threat to Ren the next movie but no, he is only a butt monkey that can be easily tricked.
Hyperspace ramming. Given how these ships accelerate very slowly and conventionally, I would suppose hyperspace it's just a space were distances are shorter, or mass is much reduced and there is no lightspeed, anything at all to explain how every conflict in the series wasn't solved by Kamikaze bombing something else. But no, it actually makes for lethal kinectic weapons that somehow, no one thought about before that admiral. Why didn't they Kamikaze'd the other ships as they ran out of fuel? Why didn't the First Order ever Kamikaze'd an robot or martyr-piloted ship into the rebels?
Luke has not only regressed absolutely in character development but also was an ungrateful bastard who was going to destroy everything the little aliens cared for a thousand generations. Much like his mother, it seems, he doesn't care about aliens and only the slaughter of Jedi younglings can move him emotionally and morally at all.
Luke force-projecting and dying anyway. If he's going to die, like some mentioned, he could actually be there. Imagine if it had happened elsewhere in the series?
a - Obi-Wan force projects to fight Vader on ANH. He buys them time, but actually dies in Tatooine afterwards.
a - Yoda force projects to fight the emperor in ROJ. It doesn't ammount to nothing, and he dies.
b - Anakin is defeated by Obi-Wan on ROTS, but he is a force projection, and actually catches fire for some reason where he stood.
Obviously someone can see why these aren't at all emotionally moving or even make sense story-wise.
Last edited by haxxiy - on 19 December 2017
