I think the attack plan in this one is just worst.

It was do or die, they may have had an escape transport if it failed, don't know, but it seems they had no time and no choice. Not unlike the battle of Yavin 4.

 

That was an accident lol..
When he said he knew a way to do it in a meeting in the Resistance HQ base, I am pretty sure he didn't have an idea how to do it....it was a lie...he himself says so to Han...just before I know...we'll use the Force...
But I'm biased....I don't like Finn...I like his lines, he is very funny....just don't like him...in TFA that is....he has plenty of room for growth....so I wonder what shall he become

Exactly!

Nope...not about shields...that was lucky...he was sanitation and that's why he knew about SKB having a trash compactor/garbage schute....so he did help there...saving Phasma....but he did not save Rey...she saved herself

 

It was clear as a bell to me.

 

Finn knew Captain Phasma would know, and that was a lucky move. They figured it out. It was more elaborate in the novel, but it would have been maybe a bit too dragged out if they had done it the way they did there. She wasn't as willing to let the codes go completely without more brute force from Chewie, it did seem too easy with using Phasma.

 

Just thought of another thing about the shields....
Why can't the Resistance fighters enter SKB like MF did using the fractional refresh rate glitch in the shields...from lightspeed???
X wings are smaller and certainly more maneuverable than a correlian frighter?????

Doesn't make sense...

 

Movies that make logical sense are called documentaries and nobody collects action figures from them.

The X-wings could have tried that, sure. But having one ship go in that way first to try to get rid of the shields entirely does at least give the X-wings a greater chance to succeed in not only surviving, but surviving long enough to blow up the thermal oscillator.

 

Yeah yeah...excuses excuses

 

Well, actually considering just the Physics aspect of Starkiller base attack the coming out of the hyperspace just a few KMs away from Starkiller surface was more than enough to completely destroy the whole thing.

Just consider a bullet, if it travels at bullet speed (fastest bullets travel around 3000 Km/h) the bullet will obtain plenty energy to be released to another thing on point of impact (when the bullet stops); the Millennium Falcon was travelling in Hyperspace, so it should be travelling at speeds above light speed (1079 millions km/h) gathering an ridiculouos amount of energy and temperature to be released as soon as the Falcon stoped or steped out from the Hyperspace, it would be like a gigantic cannon shot to starkiller base that would obliterate everything in his path.

The science weapon in here is amazing, to destroy Starkiller Base the rebels will only need to send a space ship big enough at light speed and stoped it close to the whole thing, no need to lower the shields or fighters, but don't forget that from a Physics point if view the Starkiller base is an impossibility and the Hyperspace travel is just a fairytail (no material or living being can stand the accelation forces and the friction temperature from moving that fast, not even 10% of that speeds, not to mention the orientation and navigation required to such travels).

 

Come on now, you know a GFFA uses totally different science than our galaxy's.

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Your post too I like

 

I agree this is a movie, so logic is thrown out the window, but a low level grunt is not going to know anything about the technical schematics or weaknesses of the base, anymore then a private has the same information as an admiral regarding security clearance intel.

Second, if JJ and Kasdan have ever played pool then they would know that you don't always have a direct open path for a shot, same as calculating hyperspace to travel around planets and space debris. How do you fire a direct shot at a target across space with out factoring in other planets, asteroids, and planetary revolutions and rotations, unless you're operating in the same universe as Wanted. ( you know, where the bullet curved?)

Third, I don't think that Starkiller base moved out of orbit like the Death Star did since it was a planet. If it did, how did it still have living trees on the surface moving away from it's sun? And, wouldn't the planet only have a small window of time to fire when the planet rotated and the canon portion was facing in the right direction?

 

I know this are movies, just fairytails, but the good darn ones keep it real and don't over fantasized, for make believe fantasies watch the kid shows instead (some of them are very good and entertaining).

Actually even Fotons, the light rays, curve, mass makes any other masses curve, only small nucleous particules like neutrinos don't curve because they have so little mass, they actually pass through bigger masses. Some of the biggest explosions of energy in the Universe are the "Super Gamma Ray Bursts" from collapsing stars and those are high energy rays witch cross the universe killing everything in his path, i believe the range of destruction reaches the 5 000 light years. (there you have your Starkiller)

Just consider that at least 1/3 of all planets in the Universe are Rogue Planets, Planets wandering around without orbiting a star, but those planets are extreme iced Planets, with very, very low temperatures where everything is completely frozen because they didn't get almost any energy to fuel trees or any kind of life. Rotating a planet in space seems pretty easy, no inertia or drag, a couple of engines and there you go.

 

I was just teasing. Movies are more enjoyable when you're not frequently thinking, That can't work...

Star Wars is a strange and wonderful mixture of sci fi and fairy tale/fantasy--sometimes I'm left wondering which genre I'm supposed to be oriented to.

 

Agreed. But most of the times movies can get way less enjoyable when you start thinking "That would never work" or even "There's no chance in hell THAT could work".

I love Star Wars Movies because of the entertainment factor not the scientifical, i'm perfectely OK with physics bending and streching but don't break the must simple laws of physicals because that would simple turn the movies DUMB

 

at the end of the day, Star Wars is for kids.

and actually the "darn good" fairytales that have endured for hundreds of years are typically the least "real".

 

stinky, but right!

i think that's the point: stories should be grounded enough for us to relate, but fantastic enough for us to dream.
bog down on either side and you potentially get a mess.

if you're invested in the characters and their objectives, the scenery and the specifics (and even a lot of logic) can easily and happily go out of the window.

 

Actually sw Is a soap opera that families can watch ... Certainly explains why the dialogue is iffy .