re: Force Awakens Revisited

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For one, Poe's X-Wing has more screen time than Poe himself.

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A step further- simple blaster shots are enough to render his X-Wing useless in one of the early scenes of the movie. Either the x-wing is that fragile or blasters are that powerful. Either way, why don't the ground troops on Starkiller Base fire at the x-wings? I'm sure there will eventually be a backstory written to explain why these fighter planes with hyperdrive can't afford the energy to shield when powering on, but can afford to under intense maneuvers while shooting. But it's an annoying occurrence. They could've at least made it a guy with a big, powerful blaster.

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forces Finn to return to Jakku

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And Finn finds himself aboard the Falcon. A freighter that has two gunner positions in previous fight scenes. Yet when one gun became disabled, he didn't attempt to go to the other. Again, when The Universe expands to fill the holes created, an explanation to how the second gun broke will be conjured. But the character couldn't have known that. Maybe he didn't know it existed at all, but he sure found his way easily into the one gunner seat.

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how he gets back is cut from the film).

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I did buy the extended release Blu Ray. I don't think I watched the deleted scenes or figured out where they put them on the disk. Is this scene included? Or an explanation as to why Poe no longer cared about retrieving his droid?

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Rey, and Finn

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Shouldn't her force-sensitive super instinct tip her off to his awful poker face when he states he's in the resistance?

She's untrained in the ways of the force, so I'll let it slide. But it seems like it would've been obvious for someone as "strong" as she to not sense obvious and ill-feigned deceit.

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I wasn't the biggest fan of the scene aboard Han and Chewie's cargo ship. It seemed out of place in the film and the giant CGI monster chasing the heroes felt like a bad parody of Episodes 1-3.

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This is why I'm OK with some of the unexplained things that are filledin after the fact. Because this story line is almost senseless. It's as if there were ten good explanations for what Han and our Wookie friend were up to for 30 years, and the writers decided to rewrite the story on the day it was filmed. Head writer to guy in charge f rewriting scene: "Remember the guy who helped overthrow the Galactic Empire and learned to think about more than himself, the one who, as a person, developed more than any of the other characters over three movies? Screw that. He's a swindler again. And his uhh. His wife doesn't like him anymore.


...and there's a monster involved. Go"

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Poe will never have to worry about shield generators

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...except that the equivalent of a Glock 9mm took out his equivalent of an (pick whatever your favorite fighter plane is) where the only reasonable explanation is that x-wing shield generators don't come online with ignition.

Sorry. That part really annoyed me. Side note- had this been a non-main character, how awesome would it have been for the storm troopers to run his body over his paused-mid-blast shot to execute him?

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Starkiller bas

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The original Death Star could blow up an entire planet from its own power generators. I don't think anyone would have questioned it firing off multiple shots. Why is it now requiring some or all of the energy from a sun and a planet sized (or is it really just a modified planet?) to blow up an entire solar system at once? The 1/8 size, 30 year old mobile base could've done that in a week anyway. I would say they ran out of ideas, but after The Death Star blew up they....rehashed the same idea.

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Meanwhile, x-wings shoot tie fighters outside for some reason.

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Star Wars created new and goofy ships six times a movie in the PT. Then in the OT (chronologically from a character's point of view), there's still a big variety of ships. 30 years later, A-wings and B-wings are scrapped. And literally they took the two most popular fighters and 2.0'd them instead of coming up with any number of outrageous new ship designs, which they always did before. Perhaps society had reached the end of its ingenuity at that point and lack of war sparked refinement rather than advancement.


The good news: if you remove yourself from all your Star Wars knowledge and watch A New Hope, you'll have nearly as many questions. A lot of things just never made sense. Backstories were written as explanation, but they all came after the fact. Lucas was either brilliant and showed just enough to get us interested, imagining the universe in which this was taking place, or he was careless and left a ton of seemingly non-sensical plot holes. I, for one, hope that it's the former, and that this one turns out with as much of a following filled with explanations as th OT.

We don't know enough about Smoke.

If he is Darth Plagius, then he might be reeeaaaal careful about teaching an apprentice.

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I'm going to assume the blast was through some sort of hyperspace portal, or other faster-than-light means.

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You are correct. As I recall, the beams traveled via hyperspace to the targets.

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I dont see whats so hard about just kicking back and enjoying the movie. Suspend belief for a couple of hours.

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This. I enjoyed it. I hope to watch it again soon.

Some of you take Star Wars way, way, way too seriously.

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Also, do none of you remember the scene when Kylo basically freezes time and slaughters a village full of innocent people? That was awesome.

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And all the more reason that the fights with Finn and Rey were beyond stupid. Kylo had already been set up to be able to obliterate either one in seconds. In an effort to make the movie PC, they pissed on all logic

I am far more interested in Rogue One at the moment.

I suspect we'll get a pretty big leak about the main male protagonist in the next few weeks...

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I am far more interested in Rogue One at the moment.

I suspect we'll get a pretty big leak about the main male protagonist in the next few weeks

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Red leader? Standing by?

I will say, I felt like they gave Carrie Fisher as few lines as possible so people wouldn't have to listen to that voice.

It was cool. I enjoyed it. Put it this way, though: If this was the first film in the universe, I doubt Star Wars is the franchise it is today. The nostalgia made it great, and it served it's purpose. As a stand-alone film, it was nothing to write home about.