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Originally Posted by chemgear
Going back tonight but upon reflection I think what bothers me the most was the whole "Slowest car chase in the galaxy" premise. It's a mass plot hole just to set up a long and useless side casino trip (and to teach Poe a lesson?).
Sidebar, I was half expecting (wanting?) the movie just to end with the image of Luke standing off against the row of AT-M6's.
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Was it really a plot hole?
They explained the reasons for it.
You couldn't send out fighters because the Rebel ship was out of the range to protect them and you would have just been up against the rebel ships defenses (they clearly detailed that with Kylo turning back).
First Order ships were too large to catch the smaller more agile rebel ship, and at too close of a distance to use lightspeed (without blowing everyone up as we saw later).
Rebels couldn't use lightspeed to get away since it would use all their fuel and the First Order would just follow then and they would be sitting ducks.
I thought it was actually an interesting show of tactics, and shows the growing difference between Hux & Kylo.
Hux was being patient. He knew they had the Rebels in a bind and there was no real need to take unnecessary risk. On the other hand you have the impulsive Kylo who made mistakes by not being patient enough.
It's no worse of a "plot hole" than there always being some easily exploitable weakness in a death star or some other big ship.