I know people don't like me in this thread, but I have a big beef with "lightspeed skipping". With all the logic and canon breaking everyone complained about in TLJ, I'm surprised this one is kind of being brushed aside. Not only does it break OT canon about lightspeed:
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Han Solo: Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
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Where even a single jump (in the same ship too, mind you) had to be precisely calculated. Yet here they make multiple jumps in the span of a few seconds, landing in the middle of floating cities and asteroid fields and whatnot without a problem.
But it also breaks it's own sequel trilogy canon too, where in just the previous movie (which only takes place one year earlier) we're shown that tracking a ship through hyperspace has been previously impossible, and that it requires an immense computer running crazy calculations on a capital ship to accomplish. Yet here we see multiple basic TIE fighters perfectly pursue the Falcon through multiple hyperspace jumps with no problems. It doesn't make any sense.
But anything for a cool visual with JJ Abrams. He broke all the sensical rules of travel in an established universe in Star Trek too (particularly Into Darkness).