Oh also:

48% is not half. Its just under half. 50% would be half.

Someone (you) doesn’t know how space and acceleration works.

Uhh, a little thing called Newton’s Third Law? Every action, opposite and equal— you know.

That max speed is when your ship’s foward momentum matches the velocity of the reaction mass as it expands sideways against the nozzle bell. You’d have to be traveling fast enough to outpace a reactor-energized explosion before you stop accelerating.

It was, by filmgoers. Every review aggregator found the same divide between fans and film critics: film critics loved it, filmgoers hated it.

the OP was annoyed that i09 not only continues to defend of a poorly recieved film, but does it with one of the weakest defenses you could raise.

Yeah, and if they had killed the emperor off in ESB, it would have sucked just as much as Snoke’s death in TLJ.

That’s because Snoke is a red herring. He’s not Darth Plagueis, and he’s not the real Big Bad of the sequel trilogy. Kylo Ren is. Everyone seems to expect that he’ll be redeemed, like Vader in the OT — in fact, that’s a big part of Rey’s arc in TLJ. But where Empire ended with the possibility that Vader might not be…

People tend to forget that the Emperor has no backstory whatsoever in the OT. He only appears in person in one movie, and he’s not even called “Palpatine.” That was stuff that only the fans knew, because they’d come across it in one of the novelizations, or the Marvel comics. And even then, the “lore” was wrong, as in…

Snoke’s backstory and any possible future...

I enjoyed TLJ immensely. The only thing spoiling the fun for me are the butthurt fanboys claiming SW is dead because they didn’t like a movie.

Looking at the guys recent posting history.... I’m pretty fucking sure that the concepts of “subjective preference”, “differing perspectives”, and “not being a mean little shit” are kinda alien to Mr Conner.

We know just as much about Snoke as we did about the Emperor at the end of RotJ. Rey had parents. Just because they’re not called Skywalker or Solo and you don’t like the implications that they‘re not relevant to who she is now doesn’t invalidate that plot development.

If you’re posting on an article about The Last Jedi three months after its theatrical premiere, I’d expect you to be fairly familiar with its reception - it received overwhelmingly favorable reviews. I assume this author is defending the film because, like many others...

...she liked the movie...?

Because some people are ok seeing a different direction than the usual masturbatory fanboy fantasy that everyone envisioned in their heads as THE direction Star Wars had to take?

Looking at the guys recent posting history.... I’m pretty fucking sure that the concepts of “subjective preference”, “differing perspectives”, and “not being a mean little shit” are kinda alien to Mr Conner.

Because people have different opinions than you? For example, I fucking loved The Last Jedi and felt it did a bunch of daring things, things that made a lot of fans mad, but were good for the franchise as a whole.