So to parallel it...at the end of BTTF2 the Delorean gets struck by lightning and Doc goes back to 1885. But the car was just hovering, there was no 88 mph in the equation anywhere. So we can either say, yep, that's a plot hole and they mucked up their own rules or we can say that when the Doc opened the door of the car in 2015 that door opening really did look diferent, so they surely made some mods to the car so that it could skip the 88 mph part just that once.
I don’t think I ever recognized this paradox in BTTF2! Wow, now that is really going to bother me.
It is definite a similar example but my own feeling is that we have 7 films worth of history that speak to what does and what does not happen in the SW Film Saga, whereas by the time of BTTF2, the lore and physics of that McFly Film Universe was presented only in one other film, which is to say I am much more easily talked into accepting certain unusual events as one clearly cannot cover everything over the course of one movie.
I have made it no secret how I feel about TLJ* and yet somehow, even this point in the film, this event which to me failed in almost every way it possibly could fail, wasn’t even the worst thing about TLJ.
But regarding this event:
Why didn’t Rian have Admiral Akkbar do this deed? Don’t say it is because Disney wanted to lean on younger talent and less on the originals (who would likely be dying off soon due to age, therefore being to risk to set a franchise on), because the character who make the event happen is unknown before this film and dies in this film. Probably would have endeared itself to more of the fans that have been shut out by the ST if some emotional gravity is put into it by having a character whom is beloved make that sacrifice.
Regadless of that, IF there is to be some fairly unknown-to-most-in-the-galaxy, super secret, one off, Ace-up-your-sleeve maneuver that if not entirely saves the day at the very least gets mud on the carpet, spits in the punch bowl, drops a few F bombs, and kicks over the TV while escorted in handcuffs toward the awaiting cruiser, it should be a throwaway moment of no importance (or better yet, not be in the film at all) and not some critical moment that means the survival of the Resistance. The event (though spectacular to see on screen) deserves a good creative answer, but an answer from the same bag of tricks the other 7 films used. It is too difficult to accept that the magic answer is so magical that it breaks from the reality we have been watching across 7 films.
Regarding IX, the I must admit the first teaser footage I saw, with John Williams score, was really befinning to pull me back in. Something about this last trailer reversed it for me. IDK. I hope JJ knocks it out of the park. I am hoping for that.
*My loud and voluminous critiques of The Last Jedi have unanimously been about the writer’s choices and the director’s choices, which then ultimately sit with the producers’ choices. Everything else, the props, costumes, sets, ships, sound, the FX, was on the level of what I have come to expect in SW, and making changes to characters or story only, would be enough to put this film among the best. The technical aspects of TLJ do not suffer as the story/direction/overall vision does.
Because it doesn't make sense that it hasn't been used before. If this was unique to other similar situations, then the difference that makes this possible needs to be accounted for. Imo, of course.
