Fury wrote:E-Balla wrote:Fury wrote:
Of course it served a purpose. More thematic development of failure, of Finn seeing a real reason to rebel, looking at the world beyond the empire and rebels, the scum bags who profit, and definitely something that they’ll touch back on in the future. You just don’t like the reasons, fine but there are reasons why it’s there.
Development of failure? But in the end there were no consequences for their failure besides nameless people that we don't care about who make no difference dying. And that look into the people profiting justifies all of that? It actually just hit me we haven't seen the affect of war or any of the universe at all really. Outside of the First Order and Resistance nothing else seems to exist. It just seemed like a throwaway part of the movie and not a major point. Definitely not worth 30 minutes of screen time.
That’s the whole point to show it! How is that a bad thing to see something outside that?
Yes there were consequences. They lost ackbar, holdo, and numbers, I agree the Leia stuff was stupid but they’re pretty screwed other than having Rey. Sounds kinda like empire strikes back but they had Luke.
They lost Ackbar before that plotline even started and Holdo was going to kill herself anyway as the decoy (plus her own complete stupidity lead to this whole plotline in the first place). Numbers would matter if they weren't already short on numbers. Going from 400,000 to 40,000 people is major when you're going against an army of 500,000. Going from 200 to 20 people is nothing against an army of 500,000. Makes no difference when you're already vastly outnumbered.
And they had nothing other than Rey at the end of last movie.
And ok let's say that was them showing the rest of the universe. It was so completely separated from the main narrative that it made no sense to include it. Its not like it really tied in to anything in the end everyone ended up on salt Hoth anyway.
They had nothing to combat them on the ground vehicle wise anywhere else in the movies. In Fact the only low Altitude Vehicle or ground vehicle period they have used in the old trilogy was the snow speeder. Empire had much more. Schit, the rebels would have lost on Endor if not for some Teddy Bears. The reality is that the Empire was much more advanced and Bigger in Scale as well. Its like saying well Iraq has Jet Fighters/Air Force as well,which makes them equal to Americas Airforce. Please learn the difference between a battle vs a full scale war. The rebels were LOSING the war. Its the reason why the Empire had dominance over the Galaxy. The rebels did not.
