Originally Posted by
godisawesome
I don't think TLJ can actually be called all that original; as covered in the podcast in my signature (sorry, got to plug it!), TLJ's meta-narrative is by and large just a less interesting and much less logically consistent version of the pursuit of the Falcon in ESB, with a Hoth style epilogue, and the film is ruthlessly dogmatic in pursuing the OT's political and military situation in a very disappointing way.
The Space Chase falls apart in logic when you realize that there's no good reason for Hux and the First Order to not sacrifice an acceptable (even by good guy standards) number of TIEs against an unshielded front of the Raddus to bring it down, or jump in front of the Resistance fleet if Rey and Finn can do that, and that's without pointing out how stupid it is for the FO to not have some kind of intermediate ship capable of catching them. The Resistance plan to evade the FO is also stupid, neglecting to account for the astounding power of logic, since apparently they expect the FO not to notice the 18 hour chase has led them to a planet, or to look out their windows and see the escaping transports, since the film doesn't establish a visual-component to the cloaking excuse.
And it's compounded by schizophrenic and manipulative writing of Holdo and an refusal to setup the hyperspace ram, both of which render the Space Chase juvenile even in its ending. Holdo is apparently supposed to be a compenttn commander who relies on discipline and the chain of command to command her crew, but does nothing when Poe challenges her loyalty and competenc eon her bridge, just so that Rian Johnson can have the audience think Poe's reasonable for a bit, before he tries to ignore the mistake he just had her make in order to suddenly make her a reasonable authority figure. He's written a commander who lost control of her crew because of her own inconsistency, but wants her to be a paragon of command. And since he doesn't set up the shield-ignoring hyoseprcae ram, we're forced to consider everyone involved in the film, if not the entire saga, as stupid for not just using hyperspace weapons every single space battle. We could have used the heroes on the Supremacy to set it up, but that would have required having Finn and Rise have some actual significance to the main plot, and we can't have that, can we?
And the film really wants people to ignore the logical outcome of TFA in regards to politics; there's no way the FO should be unopposed in their conquest of the Galaxy save for the Resistance. The New Republic was bigger than the Hosnian System, the Wookies ain't going to be enslaved again, the Mon Cala are just going to launch their skyscraper/ships into space again, and the literally millions of Galactic Civil War veterans who are still alive are going to get involved. Pretending like the Galaxy's a small place just to try and make the Resisatnce become the Rebllion again is insultingly stupid.