Yoda burns down the tree to stop Luke from discovering that Rey took the books, but it is only revealed that Rey took the books through a blink-and you-miss-it moment. If you don't catch that, Yoda's motivations are entirely unclear (which means 99% of the audience is being withheld important information.)
Yoda wasn't hiding that the books were gone from Luke, that scene was about Yoda helping Luke let go of the past and that tree was a symbol of the Jedi. Luke said that the Jedi had failed and should end yet he had been there for 5 years without doing anything about it. Would Luke really have burned the tree down if Yoda had not done it for him?
Luke hands Leia the Falcon dice, but we have no indication that Leia has any attachment to them. Even if we assume she does, she drops them for some reason. On top of everything, those dice are barely viable in the OT, so most of the audience won't understand the significance.
Those dice hung in the cockpit of the Falcon going right back to ANH, while most viewers never noticed them the people that actually sat in the cockpit probably saw them every time they sat in it. As for while she left them its because they were not real, they were just Force Projections like Luke, thats why they faded away at the end. Luke saw them in the Falcon on Ahch-to, there is no way he could have given the real ones to Leia without teleportation. When Luke was giving them it Leia it was a symbolic reminder of Han and the past, not a physical gift.
The Resistance acts hopelessly trapped by a rock wall that's so thin we can see the light coming through on the other side. Can't they just use some muscle, or even more obviously...blasters? I was actually really confused as to why they were so hopeless during this scene, I kept thinking I was missing something.
And if Rey had not shown up and cleared the rocks first I'm sure that the Resistance would have quickly used blasters or explosives to get through them.
Finn attempts to destroy the superlaser by flying his (falling apart, open cockpit) speeder directly into the beam (instead of just under it or beside it). He would have been melted long before he reached the weapon. Rose saves him by crashing her speeder into his at full speed, which not only risks BOTH of their lives...but the entire Resistance that Finn was prepared to sacrifice himself for. Her action is treated by the movie as a heroic moment.
You agree that the plan would not work, he would have melted long before reaching the cannon, so how would it have risked the whole Resistance? Considering it would not have worked is it not heroic to stop someone from killing themselves trying to do something that has no chance of working?
Holdo not telling Poe about her plan.
There is no reason for Holdo to have told Poe beyond "things wouldn't have happened if she had". She was an Admiral, he was a junior officer, why was he entitled to be told what a superior officer was planning? In the military you follow orders, you don't expect to be told everything that is going on. The people that were needed for Holdo's plan knew about it, anyone beyond that endangered the plan. Poe was a squadron commander with no squadron, those that didn't die in the initial battle or the destruction of the hanger were without ships. That made there usefulness extremely limited. And lets not forget that some Resistance members had been trying to escape in the escape pods, if one of those was caught by the First Order they could be interrogated and revealed the plan.
It should also be pointed out that Holdo's plan would have worked if Poe had not sent Finn on the mission.
Entire Canto Bight subplot is pointless, it goes nowhere and has no payoff storywise. It only exists to tell us that "animal cruelty is bad" and that the war is only happening because a bunch of rich elites are seemingly feeding it (prequel-level politics anyone?)
Force ghosts can interact with the real world? Why doesn't Yoda just take out Kylo with a lightning bolt?
The effect for Holdo's "lightspeed fleet destruction" contradicts the end of Rogue One. (Also, why don't they just build unmanned lightspeed ships as weapons if they cause this much destruction?) I understand artistic license (and wanting to do new things), but it's barely been a year.
The ships in Rogue One that crash into Vader's ship are not at lightspeed, ships jump away before he arrives but the one that hits is not going fast.
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Yet another movie where the main trio of heroes barely interacts with each other...no camaraderie whatsoever. There would be more tension if these characters had a deeper relationship.
Main (and only) lightsaber fight is against a bunch of faceless villains that they could easily take out with the Force. And we're supposed to feel tension.
Do I miss something?
