Why did they even need the snow troopers when the planet surface was a salt flat?

They're not snow troopers. They're salt troopers.

That doesn't make any sense.

All that salt from the tears of the SJW rebels.

No one else in that battle was wearing protective gear, or seemed like they would have really needed it at any point in time

Nooo, they gotta be faceless because symbolism and shit.

They can still be faceless like the regular old stormtroopers, but why they gotta look like the snowtroopers from episode V?

The crux of this debate is about Snokes motivation and desires. Gee it would sure be great if we knew a little bit more about that.

Nope, that would be good storytelling. Can't have that.

Yeah. They spend so much time building him up, and then they just kill him for a cheap twist

I'm betting it was originally supposed to be an ice planet, then they decided that was too much Hoth.

Shit we don’t even know how the empire is evil

Well, they blow planets up and murder hella civillians

But before that

And if those planets were enemy planets waging active guerrilla war

The whole planet of Alderaan wasn't doing that, just their princess

Why'd they deserve to get nuked?

But they took half the movie to explain how evil the empire was

Usually the get you emotionally invested from the start

Which movie?

IV

But here's another question that TLJ brought up. Why bother with death Stars?

Oh they fucked up TLJ

just light speed into everything

Yep

Even though objects shift to a different plane of space when traveling through hyperspace, effectively ceasing to exist until they pop back out

It's cheper, harder to stop, hits like the first of an angry god, and you have more control of the destructive force.

Otherwise you could run into a small space rock in hyperspace and instantly atomize

The problem with the original trilogy: the rolling reading intro takes away all elements of initial story building.

Indeed. But if you ask that question you will be shouted down with "NERD! Thermian argument! It isn't real!"

It gets you up to speed so they can begin with an action scene and you know who the relevant players are

But you shouldn’t need to be brought up to speed

It's also an homage to the Flash Gordon serials

And being brought up to speed is better portrayed by letting the audience visually learn it, not telling them

I know, it just irks me that people don’t realize that

Star Wars V is best Star Wars though

At any rate, it's baked into the formula, so good luck getting rid of it.

Rogue One

And yes, Star Wars V is best

Rogue One was trash