@sergio: Rationale like "we've got a shield so let's not have guards, let alone rush to the all-important oscillator once we start getting the shit bombed outta us" is exactly of the sort that makes the First Order seem like such a bumbling mess.
I understand how complaints that are clearly things that are gonna be dealt with in later installments might bother, but the promise of answers in other movies (or various tie-ins) doesn't make the one movie they originate from all that more tolerable for being half-baked and derivative.
Yes. Their superweapon was constructed within a planet deep in the unknown regions of space in secret. Unlike either Death Star, it's not like something new of that size suddenly appeared in a more familiar region of space that required investigation. No one outside of the First Order, including the Resistance, knew of it until it was finally used. Even then, the entire planet was surrounded by a shield generated from the planet itself, and not from another body like Endor's moon. It basically took a suicide mission to get within that shield. Something no one on either side expected anyone would be crazy enough to attempt. There is no reason to have guards standing in one spot at the oscillator. There might have been patrolling Stormtroopers like the ones walking by the room where Rey was held, but do they really need to spend any time worldbuilding that part?
The bombing actually failed even with the shields down. Poe and the other X-wing pilots were turning away until the bombs Han and Chewy planted went off, giving them another opportunity. Kylo Ren sensed Han's presence through the Force when he pulled that stunt to get within the shield. It was this that had him take some Stormtroopers to investigate the general area of the oscillator. They didn't go there because of the bombing, it was to capture Han, and possibly Rey, since it's a pretty good assumption that those two would eventually get together.
Why didn't Kylo Ren find Han right away? He knows his father is in the general area, but even Darth Vader took a while to find Luke when he hid during their fights, so he has his troops search for him. Meanwhile, he uses himself as bait to see if Han would try to talk to him.
I can understand subjective complaints like "half-baked and derivative" even if I disagree with them. Then there are complaints about "plot holes" that are clearly covered in the movie, but it feels like a lot of people got up to use the bathroom for how often they point at something that is covered. The movie is the first of a new trilogy, of course some things are going to be left unanswered. The other movies in each of the trilogies did the same thing, so I wonder what these people expected to happen. Perhaps they should skip the next movie and wait until all three are finished, because they're going to be in for a surprise: the next movie will probably leave some things to be explained in the last movie.
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