So, Khev's objection to the hyperspace tracking scenario is now being considered an example of bad writing? Because Leia didn't address the possibility of a homing beacon? Seriously!? I'm sorry guys, but the objection has to make sense. To me, it doesn't. I'll even take the time to explain why:
We're talking about events in the movie that happen right after the events that ended TFA. It's safe to assume that Leia didn't bring on anyone new into the Resistance between the end of TFA and beginning of TLJ. The Resistance is simply evacuating. It's also safe to assume that there was no opportunity whatsoever for anyone from the FO to plant a homing beacon in that same period of time (during an evacuation). Can we all at least agree on that?
In TFA, Hux tells Snoke that they tracked a Resistance recon ship to the Ileenium System (not to a specific planet!). The FO clearly had no beacon planted with the Resistance; that's why they took advantage of a ship that came to do recon on Starkiller. The FO followed that ship home, but only in so far as knowing which *system* it returned to, so it had no homing beacon on it. Due to how everything unfolded in TFA, common sense would tell Leia that the FO had no pinpoint homing beacon planted on any ship at D'Qar.
So, how stupid would General Organa have to be in order to say *out loud* that she seriously considered that someone had planted a beacon, when it was abundantly obvious that the FO had no pinpoint location on the Resistance prior to the destruction of Starkiller? I mean, how the hell would they have planted one since? Again: TLJ happens right after TFA!
Still think it was bad writing not to have Leia tell her crew that she had to consider a homing beacon even though it would have made no sense? Isn't Leia supposed to be smart?
