Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019
As is explained in the film, the hyperspace tracking is an extension of conventional active tracking. It's a technology that has existed in a more primitive form, but that has now been expanded upon. It's essentially like using a quantum computer in our world (and we will), while active tracking is limited the same way current computer processors limit our options (for now). Saying that Leia wouldn't be able to understand that somehow the FO seemed to have advanced tracking technology to the next level is like saying that the first time someone uses a quantum processor here on Earth, we will accuse the user of being an evil wizard.
"Hyperspace tracking" goes by another term in every other SW film: "Tracking," lol. What other kind of ship to ship tracking is there? Line of sight?
Any tracking over distances too vast to cross at sublight speed is exactly what they make such a big deal about in TLJ. Darth Maul tracks the queen's ship to Tatooine. Obi-Wan tracks Slave I to Geonosis. Vader tracks the Blockade Runner to Tatooine. Tarkin tracks the Falcon. Enfy Nest tracks the Falcon. Even po dunk Unkar Plutt manages to track the Falcon after it jumps to hyperspace in a deleted TFA scene.
It's quite literally one of the more commonplace aspects of the entire Saga. Yet in TLJ the very instant Snoke's fleet comes out of hyperspace Leia instantly assumes that he suddenly has a brand new version of the tech previously unused in the last 60 years of system to system tracking simply because she didn't personally witness a member of the FO attaching a device to any ship in her entire fleet? There's no way she could ever even know that it was the Raddus itself that the FO was locked on to. It seems like you're fine with it for no other reason than the fact that she guessed correctly which to me is simply RJ giving her out of the blue script knowledge, but speaking only for myself, that's such a wildly illogical assumption for what was previously such a tactically savvy character (going all the way back to ANH) that it really undermines the intelligence of her character IMO.
And lastly . . .
Uh oh! . . . Please don't use Solo as a SW example of how to show characters using sound logic and multi-level strategy effectively. That's a can of worms that would be better kept closed.
True story: "Solo" may be THE most solid film of the entire Saga for me--with regard to its lack of shortcomings. It doesn't have the "greatest" moments in the Saga per se but I definitely do love many of the sequences. It's just the fact that there is quite possibly not one single thing that makes me cringe or rubs me the wrong way. Even the mighty RO has some elements (less than convincing Tarkin and Leia CGI, Walrusman cameo) that I wish were better or not present at all. But not Solo. I love the entire cast (yep including L3), love the new Imperial designs, love all the new creatures, the pacing, music, visuals, dialogue, everything.
Again, it isn't the best. I'd put it fourth behind SW/ESB/RO but I'm pretty blown away at how refined the script, story and overall execution is to the point that I don't know that I can muster a single criticism.
