Then Rey amends that by telling Luke Skywalker that they've taken control of most of the systems outside the inner rim, meaning they have yet to take any of the major systems that are financially and strategically important, i.e. Coruscant, Onderon, Corellia, Kuat, really any of the big ship building and political planets. Furthermore, the First Order commits a considerable amount of might in their campaign against the Resistance. A dreadnought, several Star Destroyers, AND the First Order's flagship. It's a sizeable amount of war machine that could devastate the First Order if lost.
That's the exact thinking that destroyed the Empire. What imminent danger does one snub fighter have against a battle station? What imminent danger does a few fighters present to a massive dreadnought like the Executor?
It doesn't need to be. Just watch the movie.
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You'll notice the smaller Star Destroyers never venture far from the Executor. Not even when they're chasing the Falcon are they too far from the larger dreadnought. The only time they break away is when Vader orders it so the Executor may go to Bespin and cut ahead of Han and his crew and set a trap for Luke.
They did that, but then the First Order called the TIE's back. They state why in the movie, but I can't remember the reason they give.
The biggest one off the top of my head is why is it that whenever there's a planetary blockage, the ships always seem to surround one focal point (usually the capitol, or other location of importance to our Heroes) instead of surrounding the ENTIRE planet. The Empire does this at Hoth in the OT, both sides do it countless times in TCW and Rebels, the Trade Federation does it in TPM, and the Confederacy does it over Coruscant in RotS. We live in a 3D world, Why don't they ever just take off or enter the planet on the opposite side of the planet, away from the Star Destroyers? I think this was even lampooned in Family Guy's Something, Something, Darkside...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhfDokCf5-Q&t=109s
The Sith aren't a military command structure, nor are the Jedi. The Jedi usually followed their own commands, which was to protect the target... which they usually followed through on. Obi-Wan's mission was the protect Luke. That's why he stayed on that Force-forsaken planet. I think you completely missed the point of the movie. If you tried even a smidgen to pay attention, you might have learned something instead of having to have it explained to you. The movie doesn't have to hold your hand, you know.
It's called implicit story telling. I know the average American has the attention span of a rodent, but this is just woefully bad. Either you're being accidentally ignorant, or purposely obtuse, and I'm not sure which I dislike more.
Page turners they were not. I'm interested in whether she actually reads them, or keeps them just because Luke Skywalker thought them important.
The point was to inspire hope. That if one old Jedi could face down the might of the First Order, maybe they had a chance after all.
Touche.
And it doesn't match continuity... how? This movie is FULL of continuity and callbacks in everything from the dialogue to the costumes. Luke refers to the Emperor as Darth Sidious, how is this not keeping with PT continuity? We have a bunch of OT characters, how is this not keeping OT continuity? Heck,Rey's Jedi garb even LOOKS like something right out of the PT.