At the climax of the original classic Star Wars, the Death Star—which can move around the galaxy and destroy planets—has to wait to destroy the rebel base because ... there is a planet in the way.
👋 to everybody who claims the new movies have too many obvious plot holes.
👋 to everybody who claims the new movies have too many obvious plot holes.
I’m only going to accept the “it was a gas giant” thing if they mention on screen that it’s a gas giant. Explanations made up after the fact and inserted into other mediums like novelizations don’t count.
Anyway, the point here is not “the originals are bad too” but rather “the goodness of Star Wars is not and has never been the clockwork perfection of their plots.”
I’d say the greatness of Star Wars (when it’s great) is its deft omnivorous pastiche of genre, and the resonance of its main theme, which is the necessity of opposing evil in tension with the dangers of opposing it with evil’s own tools.
Which is why my favorite entries (by far) are The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi. In the former Luke faces the tension of this challenge, and fails. In the latter he faces it, and prevails.
meanwhile both of them have plotholes and silliness galore
meanwhile both of them have plotholes and silliness galore
I haven’t seen ROTS (unfortunate acronym, that) and if its good, cool! but if it’s not TLJ serves as an excellent close.
