It’s all bad storytelling, why is the bad story telling that has something to say the part that bothers you the most?
Because it is jarring to pontificate about the military industrial complex in a space opera. It would be like inserting a subplot about the high cost of private schools in Harry Potter, or the monetization of sports in Field of Dreams.
It had nothing to say in the context of the movie setting, just a hamfisted and boring insertion that did not fit the setting. The same point could have been made on a way that did not directly contradict the tone of the genre in such a terrible and pointless way that was obviously jammed in with no thought to pacing ot tone. It was a waste of time, and that is the worst thing you can do in a space opera.
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Because it is jarring to pontificate about the military industrial complex in a space opera. It would be like inserting a subplot about the high cost of private schools in Harry Potter, or the monetization of sports in Field of Dreams.
It had nothing to say in the context of the movie setting, just a hamfisted and boring insertion that did not fit the setting. The same point could have been made on a way that did not directly contradict the tone of the genre in such a terrible and pointless way that was obviously jammed in with no thought to pacing ot tone. It was a waste of time, and that is the worst thing you can do in a space opera.