stip wrote:i read an article yesterday that likened R1 to one of the extended universe stories of old, with all the good and bad that this entails, wheras TFA is a much more tradition star wars film in the classic sense (again with all the good abd bad this entails)
that's been my thought as well. The EU was interesting but now we're getting an EU that will be taken care of by people who know wtf they're doing like JJ and Gareth and Riann. I'm excited, and I trust Disney not to get too lost in the woods the way the books did.
This makes me crazy (lettering is mine for ease of rebuttal):
Nothing in this movie makes any sense.
A)If Galen Erso needed to be kidnapped because they couldn’t finish the Death Star without him, why does he tell Jyn in his message the only reason he stayed was because he knew they would finish it without him anyway?
B)If the Rebel Alliance is willing to shoot an informant in the back and break Jyn out of jail and risk a mission to Jeddah to get this defected pilot from Saw, why do they suddenly not care what Jyn or the pilot have to say? Suddenly they’re like…”meh. Nevermind.”
C)So Tarkin isn’t the guy who spearheaded the Death Star now? He stole it from Krennic? So now Tarkin is just a dipshit who took credit for someone else’s work? Why rewrite the original trilogy like that?
D)Kyber Crystals power the Death Star???? So it’s a giant lightsaber?
E)Why did Saw need a Truth-octopus when he had a message from his oldest friend on a hologram?
F)Why didn’t Galen give the pilot the plans instead of a hologram explaining the plans?
G)Why are the Death Star plans not kept on the actual fucking death star? Or in several locations?
H)If Rebels are attacking your base because they want to steal the Death Star plans, step one would be deleting the Death Star plans right? Even if you don’t have a backup, you delete it before they get the plans.
I)Why is Galen and a whole team of engineers working on some remote planet instead of on the actual Death Star?
J)Why couldn’t the Rebel Alliance stop the attack on the platform? They said the pilots had already started the engagement? So what? Use the comms and tell them to stop! Clearly communications can make it from that planet to Rebel Command.
K)If the Death Star plans are so big of a file that it needs to be stored in a giant data center, and needs a huge dish to broadcast it, how does it fit on a 2x4 key-card that can be inserted into an R2 unit? Is Alliance compression technology that much more advanced that the Imperials have?
L)If you can communicate with people outside the shield to tell them to destroy the shield, just send the data through that connection. Right?
M)How did Vader know that the plans had made it onto that Corvette? How did he know that the plans had been absconded at all? The Force? Was it the Force?
A) Because, as he said in the hologram, with him on the job he built in the weakness.
B) I mean, it wasn't the Rebellion who hated the pilot and Jyn, it was the two guys they picked up.
C) I don't feel like this was really explained in the OT so...what?
D)
No? The crystals have been used in weapons not called lightsabers for awhile.
E) "Hey, Saw, Buddy, I'm going to send someone and his exact name is Bodhie S. StarPilot. Got it?" I missed that part of the message, I guess.
F) Seriously. The plans were on an entirely different planet at that point.
G) They probably are, who says they aren't? As I learned yesterday: You can't prove a negative so you can't say they aren't somewhere you don't know they aren't.
H) Because they didn't know why they were there? It was Tarkin who figured that out, not the guys on the planet. And he wanted to blow the fucker up so it's not like he called ahead.
I) Dude, work-at-home and work-life balance is
huge in the Empire. Kids and farming, not so much.
J) I'll give you this one, but only because the movie more or less tells you on every other communication that they happen without worrying about how slow the information travels and yet for this one attack they're all, "it's too late!"
K) 1) you don't know how big the file actually is on the HDD, maybe it was only part of it and the Rebels also stole the lunch menu for Palpatine's coming visit?
2) the Rebels probably have bespoke technologies because of their size, so maybe? Also, it could be a Blu-Ray and hold 50GB of information.
L) I feel like Rocket talking to Baby Groot. NO, it doesn't work that way. They said so a couple times!
M) I don't think he was there because of the plans, he was there to fuck shit up. Did you not see him fucking shit up?
It's like he wasn't paying attention
at all.
