I dismissed your reply because apparently you have a few things to work through. The producer pays for the production, but otherwise has little to do with it. I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference. The rest of your response was, frankly, entirely unwarranted and completely off topic. If you have issues with the…

Eh, wrong moment for it, really. Leave the teachable moments to the more serious movies, I say. As long as my laser swords and space wizards are internally consistent I’m happy.

...the implication here is perhaps unfortunate.

That’d be impressive, given that he didn’t have anything to do with this movie...

Sound in space is mostly there because people used to aerial combat expect whooshing and blasting sounds and can’t suspend their disbelief when things are quiet. In other words, scifi has space sounds because people are inherently stupid.

What’s unbelievable about that? If you have artificial gravity, the bombs will go in the direction of that gravity. Once they leave the artificial gravity, they’ll keep going straight. If you’re complaining about artificial gravity in a series that has traditionally had zero weightlessness, then I can’t help you there.

Game Cat has two sites, one of them sponsored. The sponsored site gets the strips a week earlier, while Kotaku pulls from the other site.

You know they edit these things, right?

This post seems a bit Chicken Little. From the page you linked to:

If you watch carefully, you’ll see a moment where Palpatine’s play-acting turns to real terror. That moment is in reaction to Mace Windu’s decision to kill Palpatine rather than put him on trial; up until that moment, Palpatine knew that he’d be able to go free through his primary skill, manipulation.

That’s what brought about the downfall of the Republic. The downfall of the Jedi was brought about by Anakin. Without Anakin, Palpatine would have been killed by Mace Windu, possibly even discovered earlier. He’s a lynch pin of the entire situation, a focal point on which events pivoted, who brought balance to the…

Eh, precision is necessary for these kinds of arguments, I feel, but fair enough.

The chase is a bomb with a timer. You don’t fault the bomb with the timer for not being active, you fault the quality of the scenes based on it. In this case, the scenes were a pair of ill-conceived plans intended to fail: the mutiny and the mission to the casino planet.

Obviously a lot of people didn’t connect with this one (56% audience approval rating on RT).

That’s because the chase sequence wasn’t intended to be the focus for the film. It was the backdrop for the actions that it inspired, and the very fact that it was low on action was part of the reason Poe agreed to the crazy plan. He’s someone who only expected results from action and the constant inaction was…

That largely depends on how long she was in vacuum/exposed to radiation and where Resistance hospital tech currently sits. It’s pretty clear they no longer use Bacta tanks to heal grievous injuries, so it’s fair to say that the tech has improved significantly since Empire.

If the Resistance fleet is able to accelerate to a greater degree, is it not plausible that doing so is less efficient than simply staying at a range where First Order attacks are ineffective?

Not exactly. The engine is part of the ship, so the thrust is being added to the ship relative to the ship’s current velocity. From outside, it appears that there’s a decreasing amount of acceleration as the ship goes faster, but there is still thrust, it’s just exponentially decreasing relative to velocity.

I would argue that the casino serves another theme that may have slipped past you, that of the underlying machine that fuels the intergalactic conflicts. It’s part of the other themes of conflict in the movie, such as the Force itself driving similar conflict with “the darkness rising and the light rising to meet it.”

Using aggregate scores to decide something’s worth is inherently ridiculous. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean that it’s good, and aggregate scores, particularly when they are from user-submitted data, are inherently suspect. Your reasoning using Rotten Tomatoes is akin to the FCC’s reasoning using…