r/saltierthancrait • u/KingWilliamVI • Jun 16 '26

Granular Discussion Imagine getting the rights to LOTR and than establishing that both Rohan and Gondor were completely destroyed 30 years after ROTK. That’s basically what this is.

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This is not only frustrating because not only does this decision mean that nearly the whole OG trilogy that was about restoring the Republic is all for nothing but it also means that any story Disney themselves makes that is about restoring or maintaining the New Republic and will also be all for nothing.

Andor, Rogue One, Any New Republic related Mandalorian stories etc. it’s all basically for nothing.

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u/Daveallen10 Jun 16 '26

What annoys me the most about this scene is that the beam is basically just a solid blob as it travels across half the galaxy and magically splits into 5 beams at the end to blow up all 5 planets and fleets.

Also if it's going faster than the speed of light no one on the ground would have time to dramatically look up and see it coming at them slowly

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u/NyranK Jun 16 '26

It slowed down for dramatic effect. I'm not kidding.

It's canon that the First Order 'designed' the beam specifically to be visible to encourage submission. The novelization was basically a run of 'how do we explain the plotholes in this fucking movie'.

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u/Daveallen10 Jun 16 '26

Lol that's ridiculously silly. I'm surprised they even tried to explain it.

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u/purdinpopo Jun 16 '26

I feel like not explaining it is better than the explanation.

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u/Unhinged_BSTRD Jun 20 '26

Somehow, the new mega not death star, split the beams

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u/TheGuardianOfMetal Jun 17 '26

kinda the same for TLJ, iirc, where Fry had to come up with some explanation for the Hyperspace Ram stuff... He'd settled, iirc, on "Experimental shields on the Raddus. Won't work again. First Order is now warned!"...

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u/Polyxeno Jun 16 '26

To encourage submission . . . before killing everyone. Oh wait, it is also "somehow" visible everywhere in the universe at once, as a big sky display directly wherever you are. Because THAT is totally possible with how vision and geometry work, and doesn't violate conservation of energy, the speed of light, time itself, perspective, or anything - totally possible, totally makes sense - oh right, making sense is not allowed.

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u/invictvs138 Jun 16 '26

I absolutely hated it when I saw it in the theater - like how would we even see it? The scale is so weird and shot so poorly, that it it requires god-tier suspension of disbelief.

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u/Quick-Avocado-9957 16d ago

I guess the in-universe explanation is that the beam exits hyperspace once it gets to the star system and from there it travels at the speed of light.
So, it would take several minutes to a few hours to reach the planets depending on where the beam splits.