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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 7316691" data-attributes="member: 3887">Well, yes. That's the whole point. Poe's wrong. His half-baked plan goes sideways. In Poe's defense, his plan is probably no worse than the plan to rescue of Leia in Star Wars. But Poe's storyline in TLJ is how a hotshot pilot becomes a smarter leader, so things don't go as well for his merry band i.e. Finn & Rose. There are vital life lessons to be learned! It's not that 'ranks and organization' mean nothing. There's a huge excluded middle between 'anarchy' and 'legendary General Leia Organa can field-demote Poe'. But seriously, did you think The Last Jedi was suddenly going to become a military legal procedural, with appointed counsel, hearings, and a trial? Jedi Advocate General?? It's not that kind of show. Could be? Regardless, I think it was a great decision. The Resistance ships are beyond the effective range of the First Order ship's weapons, and the FO can't close. Pretty sure this is explicitly stated. As the Resistance ships run out of fuel, they fall into effective range and get blown up.  The reason why the weapons effective ranges are so short, and not, say in the tens of thousands of kilometers, is so the ships all fit in the same shot - because this is a Star Wars movie!TBH, I'm not exactly sure why Johnson went with the slow-speed space chase. All I can think of is it's an inversion of the middle of ESB; instead the Rebel fleet jumping away and the Millennium Falcon limping to Bespin at sublight, we have the opposite. The Resistance fleet crawls away from the FO pursuers while a brave subplot flits off to another location at hyper-speed. This is probably some sort of commentary on distance & time in the Star Wars movies.  Honestly, I don't think we get good picture of life under Imperial occupation until Star Wars Rebels.The FO lost their Supreme Leader, his immense flagship, and some (most?) of that fleet after Holdo's hyper-jump kamikaze. So... not bad? Especially when you consider the allies the Resistance called out to from Krait are still out there. Which brings up my biggest issue with the next movie. I don't want it to be a movie. I want it to be a Bioware game. I want 40 to 50 hours (single play-through) of the PCs in the Falcon uniting factions in a reluctant galaxy to battle the First Order. Plus romances!</blockquote>

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