This whole revisionist “the prequels actually aren’t that bad” line appearing around the internet needs to die.

Yes. Yes, they were that bad. They only get worse because every year the CGI looks more and more dated.

They were a fucking celluloid holocuast.

Yeah, that lightsaber fight where we have a villain who never speaks and we know nothing about so I have no idea what the motivation is or why I should care. Riveting stuff!

I fucking hate that lightsaber fight and I fucking hate how people bring it up as if it’s a positive. “But the lightsaber fight sure was kewl!!!”…

That sure is a pretty man.

Doing backflips to excuse Putin’s regime and accusing someone else of being a “shill”. Priceless.

Well, Lorde has no problem playing in Moscow after they blew up a bunch of Syrians, terrorized Ukraine, and shit all over LGBTQ folk so I can’t really see the principle here. This is why country boycotts are ridiculous.

omg ur so woke

I literally address this in my post. The EU is officially non -canonical, but they still borrow from it heavily by Lucasfilm’s own admission. We have no reason to believe that hyperspace travel works any different than how it is presented in Legends.

Possibly true, but Poe doesn’t know this when he decides to take out the Dreadnaught.

If you believe you have potential allies in the outer rim, which they make a point of talking about, then it could, in fact, matter.

My assumption was that she was called to assist the Resistance on very short notice. Like she was at some formal event then heard the Resistance blew up Starkiller base and was being tracked by the FO and needed help. In the film timeline, TLJ happens right after TFA. It seems like the Resistance started planning…

No need to handwave, there is an in-universe explanation for this: gravity well generators. Most large ships have them to prevent lightspeed collisions. Hux probably turned them off to track the Resistance fleet through hyperspace. The generators are established in the EU with the nuCanon barrows from liberally.

This…

This doesn’t happen often because ships have gravity well generators that prevent lightspeed collisions. I am assuming Hux turned theirs off to track the Resistance fleet at lightspeed. The gravity well generators are established in the EU which the nuCanon barrows liberally from. They probably didn’t explain this in…

Starships have jammers that can create gravity wells to stop lightspeed collisions (Hux probably turned them off to track them through hyperspace). This is well attested in the EU. I know this is nuCanon but they still borrow liberally from the EU.

It’s explained in the Visual Dictionary that the bomber munitions have…

That’s always something I LOL at now though. I shit myself in excitement when I first saw it in 4th grade, but now I know what an absolutely stupid weapon that would be.

All lightsaber battles in the OT and the ST (thus far) are far superior to all the lightsaber battles of the PT. Hands down. The lightsaber fights of the PT are highly synchronized, choreographed dance routines full of a bunch of sashaying and twerking for the camera. It’s all clean and lacking emotion. The lightsaber…

Kurt Cobain was the voice of a generation and Taylor Swift is a nasty little snake who uses false victimhood to mask her overt bitchness.

She was probably taking the time to figure out if the Supremacy + First Order feet had turned off their gravity well generators* that are used specifically to prevent this type of thing. Hence the reason it didn’t come to her immediately. Hux probably disabled the generators to track the Resistance fleet and she was…

FYI that’s not what a “plot hole” actually is and this was not really a plot hole. A plot hole in the proper sense is something that creates a paradox, not just something that looks inconsistent or is unexplained.

It’s well established in the EU and other nerd ephemera that many ships have jammers that create gravity wells that can draw ships out of lightspeed to prevent this very thing. You couldn’t do this to a planet either because of the natural gravity well.

My guess is that Hux would have turned off the jammers to track…

1. My argument is that people change in 35+ years. Yes, he does contemplate killing his nephew because he sees a “raw power” he has never seen before. I am not supposed to believe that someone could talk themselves into doing something drastic like killing future space Hitler and then pulling back when their emotions…