Here is where I'm at: Better than the prequels...worse than the originals. I gave it 6.5 to 7 rating.

1) You can certainly drop bombs in space! The ship they are being dropped from has gravity. Therefore the bombs drop from the ship. Once they hit open space they continue on their path at the same speed until they hit something.

2) You can survive in open space for several minutes. In fact you would die of suffocation before you would die from freezing.

3) Leia has always been strong in the force. She's used it to some degree in every movie she's been in. Makes sense that she would be even stronger with it at this point.

Last time...bombs could (and as presented would) drop in outer space.

I saw Star Wars IV when I was 10 and it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. V was great, VI was okay (got a little "kiddie" for me)....then the long wait...and then the Disaster Phantom Menace.

1,2&3 were not all bad...they all had some good parts and some good characters...but the bad was SOOO BAD. I can't fathom that anyone (anyone) thinks VIII was worse than 1-3.

Was VIII great? NO. 4-7 and Rouge One where all better. But it wasn't a complete disaster either. It did not live up to most people's expectations of what was going to happen. People do not like that.

Go sit and re-watch it with NO expectations of how it should have gone...it gets a little better (still not great), but better.

What are you going on about? The ship with the bombs had gravity. When they release them they are going to "fall" out of the bomb doors due to that gravitational force. Did you not see her fall from the upper deck to the lower deck inside the bomb hanger? She then had to kick the remote from the edge of the upper deck so it would "fall" to her....just like the bombs would fall out the doors once released.

Once they travel out the doors they will continue on the same path at the same speed until they hit something.

Nope...I was indroconated as a young child and will forever go see everything Star Wars.

Well some more...becasue it is possible. I can't believe people are still saying this.

They way it was portrayed in the movie it would work...that has been my entire point. There was a gravitational force in those bombers!. She fell from the upper deck to the lower deck. The bombs would also fall out the bottom from that same force! Once they leave the bomber they will continue on their path at the same speed until they hit something (or run into another gravitational force).

The ship isn't a planet...the interior gravitational force doesn't apply to objects outside of the ship so no "escape velocity" would be required. The "simulated" 1-G (or whatever the standard is in the Star Wars universe) inside the ship does not act on other objects in space as if it had the full gravity of a planet.

So that simulated force is pulling down on the bombs. Once released (if the doors are open) they fall right out of the ship. Once out they are no longer affected by the ship but they do have a velocity and a direction...which they would then proceed on until they hit something...or come across another strong gravitational field.

The whole - Finn / Rose thing...I took it that she fell for him but that it wasn't mutual.

I totally agree. It almost feels like a vendetta against JJA. Anybody know anything about that?

How does Abrams feel about TLJ ...really feel?

Thanks for your elaborate dissertation.