Im with you, everyone has the right to like whatever they like. For me though in this example, this is the kinda of suspension of disbelief I can handle. Is this goofy and would Han actually get smoked here? Yeah of course. But it's not jump the shark levels of ridiculous, imo.
It's like ok, so we know Stormtroopers are incompetent. Hans going to startle them here and scare the shit out of them and get them running. Then they realize hes alone and so he starts running. Goofy sure, but not so insanely dumb its distracting. And the way its executed its actually pretty funny. People can get startled and freaked out for a second.
You cannot be serious my dude.
You JUST complained about villain with full intent to kill hunting down ahsoka and Sabine, and landing their shots but falling to kill them as incompetence, but this is explainable?
Why are you guys not being honest about this? We can watch the video. The scene makes ZERO sense.
there is no if ands or buts about it. Its nonsense. And its intentional nonsense. And that's ok.
My problem is when folks who will be totally fine with this then scoff whenever star wars is silly now, as if its some modern invention.
Theres a scene in Band of Brothers where this squad of American soldiers are trying to deliver a message to the other parts of the village and they have German soldiers in between them. They dont have any ammo, but the guy is like "They dont know that"... and he charges this German position while theyre eating or something screaming like a maniac and holding his gun up. All the Germans shit their pants and freak out and drop their guns and run or try to surrender... and the American dude just runs right past them untouched and delivers the message. I mean thats a stone cold serious WW2 series, but the scene still works.
And I dont even mean to say everything needs to be based on hyper realism... the context around the Star Wars example is way sillier than band of brothers, for sure. Im just saying that scene in Star Wars, while goofy, doesn't make me roll my eyes for being overly dumb. I still feel like Han can be shot and killed, he just got the drop on them and spooked them and a funny scene played out.
But now imagine that as they start to escape in the millenium falcon after that, all the Death Star weapons target them and unleash a massive laser barrage. Luke Skywalker goes out into space... stands on the top of the ship as they fly away, and deflects an onslaught of laser bolts as big as he is away with his lightsaber. Its just... odd lol. Doesnt fit the feeling of how the rest of the movie treats itself at all.
You guys keep talking about feelings whilst defending a scene that ALSO doesn't fit in with how the rest of rhe movie treats itself.
Maybe we just interpret it different and thats cool... but to me that is a far cry different than Han scaring stormtroopers. Thats next level ridiculousness and doesn't really play along with the rules they already established for their universe. And I feel like a lot of the Disney stuff starts to lean way more that way than the spirit of the originals.
Luke deflecting giant laser bolts is well within the established abilities of a jedi, in various forms of media over various eras and decades.
Stormtroopers are never shown to be prone to being scared by a long gunman who they ALREADY ambushed.
Even just how they build out their basic logic trees of making a coherent story, even disregarding the actual moment to moment dialogue for a second.
OG: "We need to blow up the Death Star" -> "It seems impenetrable, we need spies" -> "Spies found secret plans" -> "We gotta steal those plans" -> "A strike team stole the plans" -> "We have a politician on our side, she'll deliver the plans under disguise" -> "We got the plans, we identified a weakness, lets attack"
Okay, fine. Makes sense. Seems logical enough for a military operation, Ill play along.
New Series: "We need to blow Death Star 2" -> "Finn - I WORKED THERE AS A JANITOR. THEY TELL JANITORS HOW TO BLOW IT UP."
I mean holy shit, we even trying anymore?
That isnt even what happens in the film. They never told Finn how to "blow it up". He had access to schematics that included villatile points in its design, and he knew about those because of his position. His role actually makes a lot more sense than "a bunch if random off screen maguffins managed to get us exactly what we need to defeat the enemy" if we're being honest. Rogue one was practically made to explain this plot hole and it turns out the wrote it so the weak point was intentionally put there... thats the only way it makes sense.
Of course then, the bad guys rebuild the ship with the exact same weak spot.
You can not in good faith tell me that one makes sense and the other doesn't. Either both of them do or neither of them do.
You keep talking about auras and feelings. Thats nostalgia. You thought nothing of rhe dumb stuff because you were a kid the first time. Now you are an adult and your sense if disbelief has shifted to a preference for more "realism". But that is warping your perspective. Star wars actually hasn't changed all that much. Its still got epic, cool stuff, heavy dark stuff, mixed in with the goofiest crao you've ever seen. Thats the brand.
And if we are beifn honest the Disney stuff has gone farther than any of the original stuff in terms of darkness and maturity. You can talk about Leia dodging around grown ass men, but then if you're arguing in good faith you can also talk about Vader snapping an actual child's neck on screen in that same show. The first time we have EVER in 40 years see Vader actually kill a child.
We can talk about andor which has the most dour gritty tone of any star wars project, virtually no quips through its entire run time.
We can even talk about TLJ which features slavery and war profiteering, even if it doesn't fully deliver on those.
Star wars can do it all
Ahsoka's ship was dead and not moving. If they were competent, the villains simply would've parked their starfighters at a safe distance in space and blown Ahsoka's ship into dust - especially if they see her exit the ship like an idiot. Instead, they proceed to do unnecessary strafing runs while aiming at Ahsoka's lightsabers instead of her ship, while also flying close enough to get swatted by her.
It's shit writing and exhibits yet again the complete absence of creativity plaguing Star Wars. God forbid Star Wars fans demand a standard higher than this. Which is hilarious because the defenders of this garbage are just contributing to its continued decline into irrelevancy. Iger has already committed to cutting back on Star Wars content and with episodes like this it's easy to see why.
Except ahsoka could manipulated rhe shops themselves if they stand still, because that shes a jedi and can use the force.
Shin would know this, because she too can evidently use it.
That's the first problem with your premise, the second is that just because something makes more tactical sense doesn't make for an exciting action sequence, and this franchise is an action based one and not a tactics based one. This isnt any more incompetent than the nonsense GL wrote with his gd battle droids which were literslly cartoon characters for kids, who were gags throughout the PT and yet were the primary military force of the bad guys.
Again, star wars hasn't changed. You did. You are so willing to forgive all that other stuff but then all of a sudden willnitcpick and overanakyze every minutia of every scene of the new stuff, as if star wars was ever this high tier, pristine franchise with the tightest most intricate writing before Disney bought it.
Cut the bullsh*** my dude. You watched the same content I did before Disney bought it, and this shoe is the same s***. Filoni worked on half of that same stuff in the later years too so you csnt even try and tell me this is some product of the buyout. Filonis been with LF for the last 2 decades.
These 3 eps aren't perfect but they're way better than 2 our if 3 of the prequel films in terms of writing.