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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7910497" data-attributes="member: 177">I am not sure if this is supposed to be some sort of excuse, or something.Johnson made one of the more common mistakes of blockbusters - reaching for a cool FX shot, but having the in-story excuse for it contradict the already established narrative.Thus compounding the stupid, and making Holdo's move worse.They had already determined that you can jump to hyperdrive through a solid object without damaging it - as Solo jumps the Falcon out of a cargo bay, and through planetary shields (which, if they paste ships flying into them, are "solid" for our purposes).So, that one in a million shot - what happens the other 999,999 times?  Half of them, she jumps too late, and it is just a ram.  The other half... she jumps too early, and misses her target entirely? If Abrams is to believed, Holdo thought a 50% chance to miss her target and run away into hyperspace leaving her people behind was an acceptable choice.  So, no, I don't consider that an acceptable response to the issue.</blockquote>