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Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

My biggest issue was the completely implausible decision to "chase" the Resistance for the entire film. The only reasons thousands of TIE fighters and dozens of Star Destroyers didn't completely stop their escape was because the film would have ended. Even Hux comments on the stupidity of the situation then does NOTHING to rectify it.

Because the ships were running out of fuel.

W.T.F.

Spoiler!

Granted, it's a little weak, but not completely implausible. They do send out tie fighters (hence leia getting sucked out into space), but then are recalled when they are beyond the support of the larger ships. Why not wait for the fleet to simply run out of fuel (which I never even knew was a thing in Star Wars btw) and pick them off? Always with the dark side is an under-estimation of the resistance. They figured they had the thing won. It's thin, but it holds up.