This is why JJs decison to allow Han to make a succesful hyperspace jump from a standing start with no previous calculation so completely stupid and it undermines the existing principals of hyperspace travel l in the SW universe.
Because it makes every subsequent decision made by a character piloting a spacecraft capable of a hyperspace travel when faced with a threat to NOT immediately jump then completely and inexplicable stupid.
So as soon as the Falcon or ANY OTHER SHIP WITH A HYPERDRIVE comes under any form of attack or danger of any kind, why not just leap to hyperspace? Han has proved it did not matter. Just pull the lever. You'll be fine.
And the result of that throwaway decision to allow that to happen is there should be no more dogfights, space battles (of any great length anyway), no need for great space fleets of star destroyers to patrol systems because JJ has SHOWN us it doesn't matter.
Just press the Hyperspace button to jump in and out and to escape.
So there is no more worrying about having to have a nav computer to help you with all those precise calculations. After all ,post JJ, we now know that we CAN fly right through a star and bounce too close to a supernova and it WOULD NOT end your trip real quick. So all the credit Han gives himself for ever being a great pilot is, according to JJ, rubbish.
You don't even HAVE to be moving.
Which is therefore even more interesting because JJ's subsequent decision to show Han jumping at a huge velocity to beat the Star Killer bases shield is then rendered so completely pointless and stupid by what he has already allowed Han to do.
Because Han has already proved he doesn't need to be even moving in the Falcon when he presses the hyperspace leap button.
So he could have just done the obvious thing. Jump directly to Star Killer base. Stop just outside of the shield. Press the Hyperspace button on (and presumably off again really quickly) for faster than light speed and......
Hey Presto !!!!
He's across the barrier.
This is why I loath elements of JJs thinking. He's great at character moments and visual spectacle BUT JJ has now completely ruined many of the rules for story logic that allowed everything else concerning hyperspace travel in the Star Wars universe to make sense.
Just like he did in new Star Trek with transwarp beaming , curing future deaths with new improved Khan blood and giving a space craft the ability to fight at warp speed. Stories cannot survive these contradictory laws intact.
I don't doubt he may give us another reasonably entertaining SW tale . But because he's all about the visuals and stupid short story cuts and rarely about consistent calm and rational thinking it really bothers me what he may do that screws up the future of SW beyond this trilogy .
Because it makes every subsequent decision made by a character piloting a spacecraft capable of a hyperspace travel when faced with a threat to NOT immediately jump then completely and inexplicable stupid.
So as soon as the Falcon or ANY OTHER SHIP WITH A HYPERDRIVE comes under any form of attack or danger of any kind, why not just leap to hyperspace? Han has proved it did not matter. Just pull the lever. You'll be fine.
And the result of that throwaway decision to allow that to happen is there should be no more dogfights, space battles (of any great length anyway), no need for great space fleets of star destroyers to patrol systems because JJ has SHOWN us it doesn't matter.
Just press the Hyperspace button to jump in and out and to escape.
So there is no more worrying about having to have a nav computer to help you with all those precise calculations. After all ,post JJ, we now know that we CAN fly right through a star and bounce too close to a supernova and it WOULD NOT end your trip real quick. So all the credit Han gives himself for ever being a great pilot is, according to JJ, rubbish.
You don't even HAVE to be moving.
Which is therefore even more interesting because JJ's subsequent decision to show Han jumping at a huge velocity to beat the Star Killer bases shield is then rendered so completely pointless and stupid by what he has already allowed Han to do.
Because Han has already proved he doesn't need to be even moving in the Falcon when he presses the hyperspace leap button.
So he could have just done the obvious thing. Jump directly to Star Killer base. Stop just outside of the shield. Press the Hyperspace button on (and presumably off again really quickly) for faster than light speed and......
Hey Presto !!!!
He's across the barrier.
This is why I loath elements of JJs thinking. He's great at character moments and visual spectacle BUT JJ has now completely ruined many of the rules for story logic that allowed everything else concerning hyperspace travel in the Star Wars universe to make sense.
Just like he did in new Star Trek with transwarp beaming , curing future deaths with new improved Khan blood and giving a space craft the ability to fight at warp speed. Stories cannot survive these contradictory laws intact.
I don't doubt he may give us another reasonably entertaining SW tale . But because he's all about the visuals and stupid short story cuts and rarely about consistent calm and rational thinking it really bothers me what he may do that screws up the future of SW beyond this trilogy .
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