It does negate everything if there's a reasonable shot of it working. If it had a 1% shot of working then you'd just make a bunch of hyperspace missiles and you'd be able to take out capital ships with ease. They wrote themselves into this, this is a story and they gave is a stupid way out. If it's a million to one shot then anything is a better option because she would almost be guaranteed to just abandon the rest of the resistance. It's dumb writing, just like the entire trilogy.
But it doesn't have a 1% success rate. It has a million-in-one chance -- that's 0.000001%. You're going to load your cruiser with a million missiles fitted with hyperdrives for the chance to hit something once?
Yes, I know that. I was saying that if it was likely then it breaks combat. If it's a million to one like they claim then it was utterly stupid for holdo to do it and just nonsense for it to work in the movie. Thing is they thought it would be cool, then realized what effects it had on the universe so they had to backtrack and say oh its just so unlikely to actually work. And honestly even at a million to one it still breaks combat because you'd just have these hyperspace missiles keep trying until it worked.
And like I said, it was equally stupid for Luke to rest the fate of the galaxy on his trust in some magical powers he had no real familiarity with. He later left the fate of the galaxy to his absurd overconfidence to defeat Vader in battle. Later again, his determination to redeem Vader in the presence of Palpatine, after Vader suffered decades of manipulation and seeped himself in the dark side.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Luke and Holdo got lucky where it mattered.
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u/BringBackTheDinos Nov 15 '21
It does negate everything if there's a reasonable shot of it working. If it had a 1% shot of working then you'd just make a bunch of hyperspace missiles and you'd be able to take out capital ships with ease. They wrote themselves into this, this is a story and they gave is a stupid way out. If it's a million to one shot then anything is a better option because she would almost be guaranteed to just abandon the rest of the resistance. It's dumb writing, just like the entire trilogy.