coconutED said:
Altered Nova said:
Luke is the best cranky old man. I find it hilarious how many people have complained about him not being a badass hero like the original trilogy. Apparently those people weren't paying attention to Yoda and Obi Wan - clearly becoming a weird old hermit is just what Jedi do. I love how he just tossed the lightsaber over his shoulder and off a cliff, and that he called it a "laser sword".
Altered Nova said:
My only complaint about the film is Holdo destroying the Supremacy by ramming it at light speed. While it's true that this would be a viable strategy in hard science fiction since any ship moving near or at the speed of light would defacto become a weapon of mass destruction simply do to the incomprehensibly vast amount of energy that would be needed to attain such speeds, soft science fiction franchises like Star Wars have traditionally just quietly ignored the possibly of weaponizing relativistic speed because it would render virtually all other forms of weaponry obsolete. Who needs fleets of manned spacecraft when you can just use swarms of faster-than-light kamikaze drones to wipe out your enemies? Hell, who needs a Death Star when you could strap a hyperdrive to a big asteroid and slam it into a planet at light speed? That strategy would have the added benefit that it would be basically impossible to defend against since they literally couldn't even see the attack coming. Seriously, if hyperspace ramming is a legitimate strategy in Star Wars than we should have seen it happen long before now and it should have become the primary tactic used in all space warfare.
It also had heavy shields that withstood bombardment from the Supremacy for most of the movie. Even at range that's quite a feat.
Throwing a hunk of spaceship that size as a missile would not be feasible even by Star Wars standards. Too many resources for too little effect.
It also cut through it, and didn't outright destroy it. So the effect was somewhat limited even in this case. The ship still seemed mostly functional after the hit. They didn't abandon ship and even the damaged area was still holding atmosphere despite the extent of the damage.
It's probably totaled, don't get me wrong here, but it didn't really stop the First Order. They were still able to operate from it well enough to assault the Resistance base. I don't know that it was going to go anywhere, but it remained mostly intact.