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Or, alternatively, why didn't Hux do this? Sacrifice a star destroyer, sure, but you KILL OFF THE ENTIRE RESISTANCE/REBELLION! That's a good trade! And you outnumber them anyways. Heck, you could easily evacuate said star destroyer to minimize the losses. Basically, this manuver requires everyone in the galaxy since the invention of hyperdrive to completely overlook this blatantly obvious thing, including top-tier engineers and generals, only for one woman in the entire galaxy to suddenly realize it could be done and no one else. And the imperials will never use this technology despite it basically allowing them to win any battle (especially since, as you claim, they have resources to spare). And the Resistance will never use it despite it basically allowing THEM to win any battle (especially since, as you claim, they DIDN'T have resources and need to make the most of what they've got).

Both sides should be pouncing on this for the exact same reason and it's going to need to be written out by episode 9 since, otherwise, the whole point to any kind of war is gone.

Physics don't allow for that to work, though. Hyperspace allows for faster-than-light travel; the kinetic energy of an impact alone would be literally infinite.

Argument A or Argument B. Either A) Hyperspace lets you at speeds faster than light at which point there's no reason an X-wing traveling at light speed wouldn't impact with the force of a nuclear bomb. Or B) It doesn't at which point basically everything Holdo did made no sense especially given the resulting fallout which couldn't have happened UNLESS she was going super-fast.

Make you choice. Either the plot's dumb because it basically gave machine guns to people still mastering this 'iron' thing or the plot's dumb because there's no way Holdo could have possibly known her plan would work and no way the result could have happened. Pick your poison.

No, I'm not "writing" anything. This isn't my creativity giving birth to an entirely new idea, this is just me pointing out observations based on TLJ and stuff that's been in the franchise for decades and explaining why the stuff you're complaining about isn't actually complaint-worthy, because it's logically consistent with what's come before.

It's not been in the franchise for decades. In fact I'm fairly certain Ryan never even watched the originals or else he should have remembered that the imperials HAD the tracking devices that were so central to the plot all the way back in ANH. Meanwhile you're equating Han basically saying 'you need a skilled pilot or else you end up smacking into a sun and gravity will still mess with you' with 'It's perfectly fine for Holdo to completely wreck that massive ship with hyperdrive because it can affect things in the normal world'. So yes, you ARE writing Ryan's script for him. Because this wasn't in the movies before, makes no sense in multiple layers of context, but you're trying to provide a justification to try and make it work despite no sense of logic allowing it to do so.
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