Timeline for Why was the 'Holdo maneuver' not used earlier?
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| Apr 12, 2019 at 23:08 | comment | added | Cory Klein | You seem to be interpreting "doing it earlier" in OPs question as "earlier in the film", but the more interesting interpretation is, "Why hasn't this maneuver ever been used before?" I think that is what is being asked here, which you admit you can't answer at all. :( | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 2:38 | comment | added | Chris Strickland | They were able to take the constant fire because they moved out of "effective range". The First Order only kept up the barrage to force them to keep moving and exhaust their fuel supplies. | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | Althis | This doesn't seem like a good answer, after all, the "they wouldn't have time to turn the ship around" is pointless once you consider that their shields managed to take First Order fire for days and being depleted was never even considered. Turn that thing around, put all the power to side shields, then front shields and ram the damn thing at the speed of light! | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 3:16 | comment | added | KSmarts | "the First Order was stupid enough to let them?" Yes. General Hux seems to be a pretty terrible tactician. | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 22:49 | comment | added | Machavity | Spot on. Nobody could turn around due to the constant fire. Note how slowly Holdo's ship executed its turn. | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 16:10 | history | answered | DaaaahWhoosh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |