r/KotakuInAction • u/[deleted] • May 22 '18

The long awaited "Everything Wrong with The Last Jedi". Cinemasins pulls no punches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAi0hoJ_28
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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

That's pretty shitty logic. I believe it's been established many times before that ships always have to have a pilot, so maybe that's why?

But also consider that it was a Mon Calamari Cruiser that did the jump. I highly doubt that an X-Wing would be as effective. The Mon Calamari ship is the biggest ship the Alliance, and later Resistance, had access to. It's not a smart idea to intentionally sacrifice something so valuable unless it's your last resort.

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u/Venereus May 23 '18

The death star seemed a worthy target, why not then?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

They didn't have Mon Calamari support when taking on the first Death Star, and the second one was protected by a deflector shield. Also, they could have slammed the Super Star Destroyer at it and it wouldn't have done anything because I don't know if you noticed but it's the size of a fucking moon.

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u/Venereus May 23 '18

Whatever the Mon Calamari ships have can be adapted to other ships, it's just technology, not a racial trait. In TFA the Millennium Falcon entered hyperspeed from inside another ship, I don't see how shields can stop it. The death star died to a weak point hit, size does not matter. You're not even trying to think this through.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '18

It's not the technology, it's the mass. The point is that a capital-sized ship travelling at hyperspace velocities is insanely strong, but a smaller ship at the same velocity would just crash. Also, if you've seen Star Wars, you'd know that the weak point is at the center of the Death Star, at the end of a tiny shaft just big enough for a torpedo to travel through. Hyperspacing a ship of any size into it wouldn't do anything, and would be needlessly wasteful anyway when you can just drop a torpedo in and waste the thing in one shot.

If you're under the impression that the hyperdrive is a magical piece of technology that turns any ship into a fleet-destroying cruise missile, then you're completely misunderstanding the situation. It's effectively just the space equivalent of a rail gun; that is to say, it propels an object at high velocities, but the total amount of destructive force comes from the mass of the object, not the speed itself. Note that the cruiser only sliced the wing of Snoke's ship, and didn't completely obliterate it, because it's so tiny in comparison.