The Tarkin Doctrine: <speedruns the downfall of the Empire> The First Order: ...guys, you know what we should do? Let's do the same thing, but worse!!!
Why have a coordinated military when you can have all your officers sabotaging and/or murdering one another? Why have a merit-based system when you can have pointless bickering and sycophants?
The weirder thing was they fixed it in the plans but then literally baited the Rebellion into attacking before construction was finished and the flaw was actually dealt with
iirc they made it so that it vented through a fuckton of incredibly tiny exhaust vents that dotted the entirety of the station, so there was no way for anybody to launch ordinance through
but then they still had the core access open because it was still under construction and Palpy thought that was a good time to literally invite the Rebels to attack
No sane person would but see the funny thing about rebels who are completely willing to die for a cause is that they're totally willing to die for a cause and will take on crazy risks. Who could've seen that one coming?
Because he will have an itemized list of all the reasons why those are terrible ideas and everyone who thought of them should be fired out the nearest airlock at the soonest possible convenience.
Because the Republic and/or Rebellion is going to naturally have a presence on worlds where there's a good flow of material/capital in order to keep their rebellion going, so blowing any of them up by default means you are deliberately destroying a massive benefit to your own "empire"
like for the former one of my absolute favorite moments of totally mundane but completely believable bullshit was in the Rogue Squadron novels where Corran and a Bothan pilot started dating one another and had to break it off because they found out he was literally allergic to her
I didn't mind it, but I know the "we're gonna just force some known characters into this somehow" approach was part of why it wasn't a bigger commercial success
I love the sequels but you're really gonna end it with "all three of the original heroes died and so did one half of the only actual romance shown onscreen"
he could've just said that to kylo when they were talking at the begining like "oh btw you see those clones in the tanks, well thats me in case you were wondering where snoke came from!"
I cannot be convinced that Episode IX wasn't just a case of J. J. Abrams realizing the franchise was still breathing after his first crack at it so he came back to finish the job
The First Order: ...guys, you know what we should do? Let's do the same thing, but worse!!!
make star wars movies that are in totally different genres
- someone loses a hand
- someone's a mystery relative
- death star blows up
- glaring plot hole