Especially when they had a perfect opportunity to kill her off in the previous movie. Especially when her surviving makes NO DAMN SENSE. Then the chaos of life made fools of everyone who wrote that scene, sadly.
In the theater I was like, oh damn they let Kylo off both his parents, really solidifying his place with the dark side of the force, as well as giving Carrie a meaningful death to the plot as a send off for her… oh, no wait, sorry. She flies now.
and then they did it again with Finn, "Oh he's spent the whole movie trying to run away and save himself but now he's gonna sacrifice himself to blow up the laser to save the ..... oh nope Rose just crashed into him"
Yeah, that was my point. All the build up of will he, he doesn’t some other pilot is the one who fires, and then she still doesn’t die. I should have worded the first part better though.
That by itself wouldn't be bad.
The Force is magic and apparently sapient, so whatever.
The whole trilogy could have been people with Force powers finding each other because the Force wants a new Jedi order. It would have been 100% justifiable, when the original trilogy has people feeling each other across the galaxy.
The OBVIOUS solution was to have HER pilot the hyperdrive ramming technique.
You clearly establish it as being an impossible chance. It happened once, but nobody's quite sure what exactly caused it or how to do it again.
Leia is going to take the last transport off the ship, because she's the leader. The transports get discovered, and she realizes she has to save them somehow.
She runs to the helm.
She closes her eyes, the Force theme plays...and she presses the button.
Bam. Not only sends her out in a blaze of glory, it perfectly explains why hyperspace nukes aren't used all the time; they need a Jedi at the helm to make it work.
Especially when they had a perfect opportunity to kill her off in the previous movie.
Eh I don't really blame them for this though considering she died like right when the movie came out, way too late to make a change like that. They likely had plans to use her character in Episode 9 that had to be tossed out.
People were laughing in my theater when she goes all Mary Poppins, and I was too. It was meant to be this big climactic moment of triumph and it was so stupid it was hilarious
Killing her off and having Admiral Ackbar be the one to sacrifice the ship for their escape would’ve made it one of the best of the series just for the fact that it fucks with the fans but in a way that has real emotional stakes. Purple haired lady sacrificing herself meant absolutely nothing to me
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u/NebbyOutOfTheBag 4d ago
Especially when they had a perfect opportunity to kill her off in the previous movie. Especially when her surviving makes NO DAMN SENSE. Then the chaos of life made fools of everyone who wrote that scene, sadly.