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When Kylo Ren smashes Rey into the tree, why doesn't he just do that a few more times with both her and Fin? Or like... toss them 100 feet into the air and let them die from the fall, etc.
Using force techniques like this require strong concentration. A rookie like Rylo Ken would not be able to do this in the middle of a lightsaber battle, let alone consecutively over and over.
Well he was able to hold a blaster shot for minutes while carrying on a conversation and going about his business, and it didn't look like he was even trying that hard. It seems force telekinesis is very easy for him, you'd think tossing a person around would be trivial.
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Why does Deathstar 2.0 have such an obvious and poorly defended weak spot AGAIN? Here's a super critical facility, the destruction of which will blow up the entire planet, and it's guarded by 2 storm-troopers.
Everything has an engine or somewhere to draw energy from. And I wouldn't say it was poorly defended since they had an epic battle to get inside, which was also only made possible by sabotage from the inside.
What epic battle? Han Solo and Co. just walk inside and shoot the couple storm troopers at the entrance. After that the entire place is completely empty with no alarms, defenses, guards, anything. This is especially strange considering that the First Order has a problem with traitor storm-troopers. They know which signs to watch for with Fin, they already have a "re-conditioning" program in place, nobody is surprised about his behavior. It's all business, an administrative process they apparently go through regularly. The captain remarks that this was just his first offense and that's why they didn't make a big deal out of it, implying that it's a common occurrence and others are repeat offenders.
So given that you have traitors running around on the surface of the planet, why would you leave such a critical facility so poorly defended from ground troops? A single traitor could walk in, take the two dudes inside by surprise by pretending to be there on official business, and basically take out the entire First Order single-handedly. One guy!
Interestingly enough, they do have anti-air batteries and combat-ready TIE fighters. So they weren't even relying on shields to hold off attackers, they just completely and utterly ignored ground troops specifically.
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The super weapon is built into a planet and works by consuming an entire nearby star. How would that work? Wouldn't consuming the star mess up the orbit of every planet in the system, including the one with the weapon, flinging them around in weird, unpredictable ways?
It's built into a planet but has its own propulsion.
Even if that's true (is building a hyperdrive for an entire planet even possible? Why bother with shooting sun energy, when you can just put engines on planets and ram them into the enemy planets?), sucking in a sun would make this planet the center of gravity for the entire system. So you'd have planets, satellites, space debris of various sorts suddenly crashing into you. Not to mention that gravity on the planet's surface would increase 100-fold, making it impossible for anyone to walk around, crushing structures and trees, etc.
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When Han Solo gives Rey the blaster and she's like "you just pull the trigger, right?" and he rolls his eyes and says sarcastically "there's a little more to it than that, you have a lot to learn", what the hell is he talking about? You DO just pull the trigger, that's all there is to it. And she proves it by shooting a bunch of troopers with it. On that note, how is someone who has never in her entire life used a gun before suddenly 1-shotting every enemy she sees with a dinky pistol, but troopers trained from birth for literally decades can't hit shit with a top-of-the-line rifle?
There is definitely more to it than that. Aiming and breathing properly, for example, for greater accuracy. For part 2... she's a fucking Jedi.
Aiming? Well obviously you have to aim, duh. He's telling someone how to operate a blaster, not teaching a caveman what this shiny weird-shaped stick is. She obviously understands what weapons are and how aiming works in general, especially considering the shenanigans they pulled when they stole the Falcon. She aimed an entire damn ship with a jammed cannon at a TIE fighter. Granted, he wasn't there to see it, but still. Telling a non-retarded person that just hasn't used a gun before that "pointing the small end at the enemy" is an important part of using a gun is just insulting.
Besides, shouldn't Rey have been like "Well.... what else IS there? Don't just hand me a blaster that I clearly don't know how to use and just walk away, how the hell am I supposed to defend myself with this?" But no, Han Solo just gives her a weapon, tells her she needs to learn how to use it, but doesn't take the literally 10 seconds it would take to explain that you need to aim at people and thus teach her how to use it.
Also, she's not a Jedi. She is force-sensitive, sure, but that doesn't make you a Jedi - you need training and studies for that. It's also a lazy "Magic!" explanation.
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Does storm-trooper armor actually protect the wearer in any way? Seems weird to invest so much money and time into raising perfect killing machines from birth and then send them into battle wearing molded plastic that does more harm than good. I'd rather go naked, at least you'll have unrestricted movement.
It protects from lower level threats that they would run into on low technology planets. For instance, they mentioned smoke in this movie particular.
So it's completely useless against their main enemy - the Resistance.
Also, they specifically said that it won't protect from gas, which is just weird. Gas masks are really low-tech technology and easily made, it would be an obvious choice to incorporate one into the armor. Especially if they do filter smoke, so it's not like they never thought about cleaning the air the trooper breathes. According to
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper_armor the armor has "air supply hoses" and enables the wearer to survive in extreme environments, including limited exposure to space. Why would poisonous gas affect them?
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How has Han Solo never tried Chewbacca's bowcaster in the 20 or whatever years they've been together? Also, aren't bowcasters supposed to be essentially unusable by humans? Has Han Solo ever used the scope on his pistol?
He loves his blaster. Don't need a scope when you're that skilled. NoScope.
Clearly doesn't love it that much, falls in love with the bowcaster instantly and keeps asking to use it again. And according to Star Wars lore, bowcasters require immense strength to use, far more than humans have.
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When Fin and Poe escape, Poe says that he must go back to Jakku for his droid and they can't go to the resistance until they find it. After they crash, he somehow ends up back with the resistance in time to lead the attack on Maz's castle. Why isn't he still on Jakku looking for the droid?
Could have witnessed the battle where Fin escapes off the planet and then went straight to the resistance. There's actually a lot of possible reasons to explain this one.
Seems unlikely. Even if he just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see them run into the Falcon and take off (which would be quite the coincidence - finds them just at the right time, too far away to escape with them but close enough to see them escape despite the chaos of battle), he'd have no reason to believe that they could fight off several TIE fighters and get off the planet. It's just Fin, who has 0 experience in a ship and Poe knows that, and some random chick in what appears to be a garbage freighter against experienced pilots in combat fighters. If anything, Poe should have assumed that they'd get shot down and he needs to find the wreck to get the map.