'why 100% of all Republic Navy ships are docked on those planets at the time'
They were?
Part of General Hitlerface's speech was about how they would be destroying the Republic navy, and then Leia (or someone else with her in the briefing? I forget?) mentions there's no Republic navy to call on for reinforcements which is why it's only the Resistance's total of 30 tiny ships attacking the new Death Star.
'where they got the power for the first shot'
Pre-charged?
And NOBODY NOTICED THEM EATING THE FIRST STAR? (Yeah, okay, the universe is big so they probably just ate a small out of the way one that nobody was looking at)
I'm hoping for spy satellites with FTL comms.
The problem is FTL comms are apparently *supremely* expensive in the Star Wars universe. You know who we see using those in the first 6 movies?
The Emperor, in his palace on Coruscant. Darth Vader on the Executor, flagship of the Empire. Which has to stop it's current mission and devote resources to being able to do it. The Queen of Naboo's chancellor, in charge of her planet, from her palace. The Senate's head message office (NOT any individual senator) The leaders of the Trade Federation.
The only people using two-way FTL communications in Star Wars are *phenomenally* rich and powerful individuals, and it evidently requires significant resources to pull off. Everyone else uses couriers. Death Star plans are carried by hand. Messages are recorded and delivered in person. People in hyperspace can't receive messages, not even a go/no go. Admiral Ackbar and the Rebellion fleet have to *guess how long it will take the strike team to take the shield generator down*, and can't even expect to have gotten a "yup we got it" SMS.
And in TAF, there's Supreme Leader Gollum, who has an Emperor-style communication chamber that, again, only he uses, and only to speak to his apprentice and General Hitlerface. It would be super-handy to have real-time communications for the armies of the First Order, but they're not using it for that. It is reserved ONLY for the personal messages of the Supreme Leader.
And then, a bunch of spies in a bar pull out their cellphones and deliver interstellar FTL messages, resulting in the New Order arriving almost immediately (faster than a one-way trip in the Millennium Falcon - not only did they arrive *too* fast, period, but they arrived way too fast for a courier to have made it a ROUND trip) and the Resistance arriving very shortly after. And then Leia can watch something happening in another system in real time, and she can call up Captain Goodhair the fighter pilot who is in hyperspace and do two-way communications with a stuntfighter in the middle of a dogfight. Why? Because JJ Abrams, writer, is not only not interested in making his work consistent with itself, he appears to get a perverse thrill from making things *deliberately* not make any goddamn sense whatsoever.
See also: The Klingon Homeworld is now canonically farther from the Earth than Mars' closest approach, but closer to the Earth than Jupiter's.
One note: Leia's point about not having the Republic Navy to call on, wasn't because it was destroyed. It's because 'The Resistance' != 'The Republic'. The Republic doesn't see the First Order as a threat so the Resistance was established with covert Rebellion support, but nothing more. And apparently, despite y'know blowing up planets, that situation didn't change by the time they needed to act against StarKiller Base.
General Hitlerface to troops: We shall destroy the Republic navy! Fire! [fires] General Hitlerface to Supreme Leader Gollum: We have destroyed the Republic and it's navy! Stargate Universe Guy: There's no Republic navy to help us!
If they wanted it to be "the Republic Navy is unable to get here in time" (blatantly false, given other travel times), they should have said so. If it was "The Republic Navy has no orders to help us" (probably true!) they should have said so. If it was "We've called the Republic Navy but they're in disarray and haven't responded yet" they should have said so.
I'm just saying, "there's still a Republic" and "there's still a Republic Navy" are both statements that are unsupported by the film itself, even though they *should* be true.
I might be misremembering what the dialog was - but I don't think I am, because I remember thinking "what? that makes NO SENSE AT ALL" at the time, too.
They were?
Part of General Hitlerface's speech was about how they would be destroying the Republic navy, and then Leia (or someone else with her in the briefing? I forget?) mentions there's no Republic navy to call on for reinforcements which is why it's only the Resistance's total of 30 tiny ships attacking the new Death Star.
'where they got the power for the first shot'
Pre-charged?
And NOBODY NOTICED THEM EATING THE FIRST STAR?
(Yeah, okay, the universe is big so they probably just ate a small out of the way one that nobody was looking at)
I'm hoping for spy satellites with FTL comms.
The problem is FTL comms are apparently *supremely* expensive in the Star Wars universe. You know who we see using those in the first 6 movies?
The Emperor, in his palace on Coruscant.
Darth Vader on the Executor, flagship of the Empire. Which has to stop it's current mission and devote resources to being able to do it.
The Queen of Naboo's chancellor, in charge of her planet, from her palace.
The Senate's head message office (NOT any individual senator)
The leaders of the Trade Federation.
The only people using two-way FTL communications in Star Wars are *phenomenally* rich and powerful individuals, and it evidently requires significant resources to pull off. Everyone else uses couriers. Death Star plans are carried by hand. Messages are recorded and delivered in person. People in hyperspace can't receive messages, not even a go/no go. Admiral Ackbar and the Rebellion fleet have to *guess how long it will take the strike team to take the shield generator down*, and can't even expect to have gotten a "yup we got it" SMS.
And in TAF, there's Supreme Leader Gollum, who has an Emperor-style communication chamber that, again, only he uses, and only to speak to his apprentice and General Hitlerface. It would be super-handy to have real-time communications for the armies of the First Order, but they're not using it for that. It is reserved ONLY for the personal messages of the Supreme Leader.
And then, a bunch of spies in a bar pull out their cellphones and deliver interstellar FTL messages, resulting in the New Order arriving almost immediately (faster than a one-way trip in the Millennium Falcon - not only did they arrive *too* fast, period, but they arrived way too fast for a courier to have made it a ROUND trip) and the Resistance arriving very shortly after. And then Leia can watch something happening in another system in real time, and she can call up Captain Goodhair the fighter pilot who is in hyperspace and do two-way communications with a stuntfighter in the middle of a dogfight. Why? Because JJ Abrams, writer, is not only not interested in making his work consistent with itself, he appears to get a perverse thrill from making things *deliberately* not make any goddamn sense whatsoever.
See also: The Klingon Homeworld is now canonically farther from the Earth than Mars' closest approach, but closer to the Earth than Jupiter's.
(continued in part 2)
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(Extra thing while on the topic of actors: The stormtrooper who releases Rey, the one who drops his gun and leaves the door open? Daniel Craig.)
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[fires]
General Hitlerface to Supreme Leader Gollum: We have destroyed the Republic and it's navy!
Stargate Universe Guy: There's no Republic navy to help us!
If they wanted it to be "the Republic Navy is unable to get here in time" (blatantly false, given other travel times), they should have said so. If it was "The Republic Navy has no orders to help us" (probably true!) they should have said so. If it was "We've called the Republic Navy but they're in disarray and haven't responded yet" they should have said so.
I'm just saying, "there's still a Republic" and "there's still a Republic Navy" are both statements that are unsupported by the film itself, even though they *should* be true.
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Well fine, if you insist on being right, just be right then.
:)
Nothing in my memory of the film counters your statements. I guess I'll just need to rewatch it to see if you're wrong (you're probably not wrong).
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