reddogblues
Padawan
Just re-watched Force Awakens. I still think it is a fun flick, with some great nostalgic pieces, but the thing that always bothered me was how "easy" it was to destroy Starkiller base.
I think Rogue One now makes that even more apparent. We see in this movie just what the Rebellion had to go through to get the plans just to give them a shot at destroying it. Hundreds are killed, many suffer, just to allow them to analyse the plans and come up with a weakness.
Now in Force Awakens all that is condensed into some guy called "Snap" doing a recon mission (which we never see) and then some general saying, "hmmm there must be some kind of oscillator". Finn confirms there is and they decide all they need to do is keep bombing it until it blows up. It basically takes the whole of Rogue One and a New Hope (both ultimately about getting the plans to Yavin) and puts it into a 30 second briefing.
It just felt like lazy story-telling to me.
I think Rogue One now makes that even more apparent. We see in this movie just what the Rebellion had to go through to get the plans just to give them a shot at destroying it. Hundreds are killed, many suffer, just to allow them to analyse the plans and come up with a weakness.
Now in Force Awakens all that is condensed into some guy called "Snap" doing a recon mission (which we never see) and then some general saying, "hmmm there must be some kind of oscillator". Finn confirms there is and they decide all they need to do is keep bombing it until it blows up. It basically takes the whole of Rogue One and a New Hope (both ultimately about getting the plans to Yavin) and puts it into a 30 second briefing.
It just felt like lazy story-telling to me.