doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
But it does make sense. If those books weren’t around to confuse matters, the movie, by itself, makes perfect sense: they’re in the same system. No question.
If those licensed products didn’t exist, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation; we’d all agree we’d clearly seen several planets in the same system.
Those books don’t clear anything up - they confuse the matter by claiming they’re not in the same system, contrary to what we saw on screen, and justifying their dubious claim with some new technobabble.
Nah, the movie clearly shows one or more neighboring systems getting blown up. If not for the books, we’d clearly know that each beam hit a system, not a planet.
Also, in TLJ, doesn’t the crawl say that the New Order has swept in after the destruction of the main Republic fleet and taken over?
I feel like these debates always forget stuff that’s in the crawl.