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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
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:
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).
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In a fictional far away place a long long time ago, in which space wizards have dazzled audiences with laser beam gunfights, light sword fights, spaceship laser gun wars, unique looking aliens of all sorts, where these same space wizard use magic to lift space shifts, heavy objects, force other beings to think / believe what they want, come back as ghosts and talk and wave at people, have broken the laws of physics in all previous 8 canon movies, shoot lightning from their hands, been killed and sucked literally out into space and then floated back into a spaceship somehow, have creatures that can live almost 1,000 years, sense when people are close to them or on a nearby ship / planet / plane just by ‘feeling’........ no... no no no no no no we will absolutely NOT ACCEPT hyperspace “skipping” even though every single Star Wars movie to now has had hyperspace travel in it.
It’s just far too unrealistic.