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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
The movie's own written universe has established that as something that's not possible! It's the first rule of any kind of fiction writing, particularly sci-fi and fantasy -- you have to establish limitations and rules, then you have to play by those rules or it breaks immersion. Or at least attempt to provide some explanation when you do break the rules. But it never explains why it breaks it's own universe's rules, over and over, and everyone is just supposed to roll with it. "It's a crazy sci-fi world, just roll with it!" was probably written at the top of the writer's board when this trainwreck was written.
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While this isn't completely inaccurate (and you're describing the issue in a way it's very commonly framed), I don't think it's that accurate either. People can and will roll with rule breaking just fine if they can see that it makes some kind of narrative sense. That's why people mostly aren't complaining about force teleportation. Rey and Kylo Ren fighting in some weird limbo between their imaginations and actual location drove the plot and themes forward, so that was fine, although it decisively was not what we knew of the force, and wasn't really explained in any way.
The problem for writers is that "narrative logic" is really close to just dream logic. It's extremely difficult to know what the audience will go with. However in this case I think it's easy to see what the problems are. Lightspeed skipping had no point in the movie. It was just a different way to do a very basic chase scene, while directly conflicting with things that had previously been established about how the world works. (If you can escape to lightspeed you're fine, jumping to lightspeed takes time to prepare etc.) It just confusing to follow, without really adding anything.
My guess is actually that there was sort of a point to lightspeed skipping. I think the movie
tried to make a thing out of advancing technology. Planet busters going from unique to relatively common weapons, jetpacks going from rare bounty hunter equipment to common storm trooper equipment, and lightspeed tracking technology going from unique and new in the previous movie to commonplace in this movie.
Whether this was what they tried to do or not, the execution was really bad, and badly thought out. Lightspeed skipping wasn't just confusing, it was boring.