Well given that the original trilogy already had more plot holes then swiss cheese and let's not talk about the prequels, the last ones are par for the course if you ask me.
They might not have the same feeling the original trilogy had, they were far ahead of the prequels, now if only they had cast someone other then Adam Driver.
I'm going to disagree. The sequel trilogy is far worse in terms of writing. Legacy characters are mischaracterized, written inconsistently with established history with insufficient narrative justification. The hero's journey is discarded in favor of a protagonist that never fails, never grows, and never changes. She's a Mary Sue who is literally the best at everything on her first try. It's fan-fiction level writing. There is no coherent plan to the series with plot threads dropped in the second movie.
In fact, that movie even goes so far as to stop plot threads in their tracks with no payoff. It's main villain is killed off like a generic henchman and scenes like the space chase are beyond nonsensical. Even by Star Wars standards. Basic physics are ignored and the entire sequence is the most contrived thing I've ever seen.
The ships not being able to catch each other is well and good, however, TIE fighters can easily catch the ship and do. Somehow, three of them have enough firepower to seriously damage the ship. So a ship that's big enough to make up a significant part of the Death Star's mass doesn't have more they could launch? They are firing blasters at the fleeing resistance ship, but can't destroy it?
They cite being at the edge of weapons range reduces their effectiveness, but there is nothing to indicate refraction of the beams or any medium to reduce their power output. Range in space has nothing to do with depleting over distance, but rather being avoidable when far enough away to just get out of the way of something traveling in a straight line. You would also need to be hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the target for this situation to occur. In other words travel time for a laser is around 1 second at 300,000km. A ship would need several seconds to detect the beam and move out of the way. But that distance doesn't dilute the beams destructive capability. Certainly not at those distances without being inside a nebula or something.
And are we supposed to believe that a ship that's the size of several Star Destroyers and far larger than Executor lacks the firepower to destroy a ship that couldn't take on a single Star Destroyer of the new era? This seems like BS when a single TIE has lasers powerful enough to destroy the bridge and space everyone. Let's not forget that Leia can Mary Poppins her way back into a ship that would have passed by her after she was blown out. Yet, she just flies through the hole like it's no big deal. She'd have died in mere seconds. In the film she kind of seems to wake up and then will herself through the hole in the ship that shouldn't be there.
And of course, the problem isn't that the shields will run out of energy while being bombarded. The issue is that the ship will run out of fuel. There is no reason for this to be true given that there isn't anything to slow the ship down once the engines are fired. They'd only need a burst to get the ship moving at speed. They act as though the lightspeed drive won't work, despite the fact that these aren't all the same. It's doubtful that a ship the size of that wing thing would be as fast as the smaller vessel. Tracking it wouldn't matter if it could stay ahead of it. Hyperdrive fuel wasn't a stated problem.
But the ship slowing down when it runs out of fuel makes no sense. The escort frigate that did this also began spinning end over end for no reason. Let's not forget that the main characters can just board a ship during this pursuit, fly to another star system and back without issue either. Star Wars has never been as dumb as the Last Jedi. Period. The quality of the sequel trilogy, despite being visually excellent is the lowest it's ever been. The above scene analysis is just one of dozens or more problems those movies have that no other Star Wars films have.
