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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I've completely forgotten why the First Order had to very slowly chase the Resistance fleet and fuel-starve them over the course of 18 hours. There was a line about the Resistance ships being "just far enough out of range for cannon fire to be effective"... but then why not just close the range? Why not send 50 TIE fighters to take down the main ship during such an exhaustingly long chase? I'm sure this was addressed but I can't remember it.

They basically said that fighters sent into range while being outside of the operating zone of the flagship would get torn to shreds. I don't remember anything about why they can't close the distance, but I can't imagine these ships are built for manual travel since hyperspace travel exists. There's a lot of handwaving of how space combat works in general.

CaptainOfCrush posted...

I might be the only person who hated the post-Snoke fight. The drama there is between the central three characters - throwing the surviving two into an immediate fight with grunts robs that scene of its drama. I tend to care way more about characters and buildup than I do action scenes, so maybe that scene just wasn't for me. The audience all went "OH!" when Kylo killed that last guard with a lightsaber through the skull, but I was thinking "they just killed the fucking supreme leader, who cares."

This is just a cool scene to show Rey and Kylo actually working together instead of Kylo saving Rey and going "join me" and she goes "no." It lets Rey make the decision to save Kylo just like he saved her, because they both think they can turn the other. It's basically a really cool looking character moment.
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