Vulcan wrote:sirlynchmob wrote:The words of dark helmet were never more true than in this movie.
"evil will always triumph because good is dumb"
Well, Evil didn't exactly cover itself with glory in this movie either.
1) General Hux... wait. First off, why is a GENERAL in charge of a fleet? Surely there's an ADMIRAL around who can run a fleet better than Hux does. That's a major Idiot Ball moment for Snoke, putting Hux in command of his fleet. If Hux is really the best he's got, he's got no business even operating a fleet.
2) Hux then goes to attack a Resistance base - a base he knows is equipped with stub fighters of the type that just took down Starkiller Base - without deploying his own fighters to defend against them.
3) Hux is further successfully delayed for several minutes by Poe, rather than just opening fire and blowing that stationary X-wing into orbital debris.
4) Fast forward a bit, Hux finds the Resistance fleet in deep space... why does only ONE ship ever fire on the Resistance? For that matter, why not use the several hundred (if not several thousand) TIE fighters and bombers go whole hog on that pathetic fleet remnant?
5) Sure, your star destroyers can't keep up with the Resistance in normal space, and the Resistance can't go into hyperspace due to fuel shortages. Ah, Hux, there's nothing stopping YOUR ships from hopping into hyperspace for a couple seconds and creating a nice little Resistance sandwich...
6) Snoke then COMPLETELY misreads Kylo Ren, completing his time with the Idiot Ball. And life.
7) Sure, the hyperspace ram did quite a bit of damage to your fleet. Surely an orbital bombardment with what was left would have been more effective than landing troops.
8) I'm not sure how well a lightsaber would deflect shots from the
AT... whatever those were. I'm pretty sure Ren didn't know either. Having them all shoot at Luke was foolhardy.
9) Pausing the whole assault while Ren dueled Luke was also foolhardy. Surely Ren could have tied Luke up sufficiently for the rest of the troops to finish off the Resistance.
10) Please tell me the TIE fighter pilots are not so inept as to ALL be shot down by the Millennium Falcon... If it's true, then Snoke really jumped the gun. He needed another decade or so to train decent fighter pilots... and ideally, a decent set of fleet commanders too.