As an admitted Star Wars geek, I think you should change the article title to: “Those scenes you hated in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ made total sense, for science”. The problems that many fans had, myself included, is that the movie started breaking their own rules with a couple of absurd items (Mary Poppins Leia being one of them). The Force isn’t really “magic” and the idea that a person is jettisoned out into the vacuum of space, hangs out there for a bit and then magically lives to ‘fly’ back, was so far away from what the films have established, it became a bit of a joke of a scene (not to mention that Leia had never really had any strong use of the force in her lifetime other than an intuition). The second absurd item was not the dropping of bombs, but the idea that the empire simply couldn’t “catch up” to the rebels who were out of range of their weapons. I won’t spend another paragraph of why this is ridiculous… Ultimately I feel like a major disappointment that came from fans was the breakdown of established worldbuilding concepts embedded in the universe (the Alien films had the same problem after the sequel). Breaking rules in an established (fictional) universe is at the root of the problem, not whether it meets Newtons’ Third Law. The choices made in the film were simply bad ideas to move the story along.