10 Dumbest Villain Plans From Sci-Fi Movies
3. A Shield Generator… Again? - The First Order (Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens)
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
Sadly, the former First Lady's words clearly hadn't reached a galaxy far, far away.
The first of Disney's money-powered sequel trilogy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens reaches its climax when the Resistance goes head-to-head with the First Order's massive Starkiller Base.
The good guys devise a plan to destroy the giant space station by blowing up its thermal oscillator. Unfortunately, this is protected by shields, so a party led by Han Solo is dispatched to disabled them.
This sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it...
This is basically the same situation as the whole shield generator on Endor thing from Return of the Jedi. Even thirty years after the second Death Star got obliterated, the First Order have not learnt how to build a superweapon without one obvious Achilles' heel.
To give them credit, it's not actually their fault. It's the writers' fault, who were too lazy to come up with a new plot and so just borrowed the bits they lied from Episode's IV and VI.
Seriously, the Disney trilogy was a mess.