Post by Weirdraptor mini™ on Oct 20, 2022 22:46:26 GMT -5
President Ackbar mini™ @hauntedackbar
This crosses over with my topic about "Plot Holes that aren't actually plot holes". The Death Star's weak point is not a plot hole. It’s not an absurdly easily exploited win button, either. A moon-sized spaceship has a reactor vented through a 2-meter hole? And it’s ray-shielded? And it’s protected by a trench lined with turrets? And you’d need detailed schematics to even know about it? Sounds like the Empire did a damn fine job eliminating weaknesses if you ask me. Or, take Star Wars as the fantasy archetype it is. Wizards in space. The Death Star is its dragon. The dragon is missing a scale. Classic mythology. Not a plot a hole.
Additionally, it took two separate attack runs, of which only the latter actually hit the target, and Luke only succeeded because of literal space magic. Hell, in the original cut where Luke makes a run with the targeting computer and misses before going in again. If that's not George Lucas saying that making the shot is impossible without The Force, I don't know what is. And it's still implied that the shot is impossible without The Force in the cut we saw in theaters.
This is part of why I actually hate the Rogue One retcon. It wasn't necessary. You just needed the Rebels finding out about the super weapon and pulling a Dirty Dozen to get the schematics. There's the plot of your movie. For one thing if the vent was a deliberate flaw (thank you Galen Erso) it was a terrible one because the attempt to exploit it would have failed without the presence of that one guy with rudimentary understanding of and skill with space magic. All the fighters who weren't forced to retreat were shot down. And even Luke was just a second away from being made into space dust before Han and Chewie saved his sorry butt.
This crosses over with my topic about "Plot Holes that aren't actually plot holes". The Death Star's weak point is not a plot hole. It’s not an absurdly easily exploited win button, either. A moon-sized spaceship has a reactor vented through a 2-meter hole? And it’s ray-shielded? And it’s protected by a trench lined with turrets? And you’d need detailed schematics to even know about it? Sounds like the Empire did a damn fine job eliminating weaknesses if you ask me. Or, take Star Wars as the fantasy archetype it is. Wizards in space. The Death Star is its dragon. The dragon is missing a scale. Classic mythology. Not a plot a hole.
Additionally, it took two separate attack runs, of which only the latter actually hit the target, and Luke only succeeded because of literal space magic. Hell, in the original cut where Luke makes a run with the targeting computer and misses before going in again. If that's not George Lucas saying that making the shot is impossible without The Force, I don't know what is. And it's still implied that the shot is impossible without The Force in the cut we saw in theaters.
This is part of why I actually hate the Rogue One retcon. It wasn't necessary. You just needed the Rebels finding out about the super weapon and pulling a Dirty Dozen to get the schematics. There's the plot of your movie. For one thing if the vent was a deliberate flaw (thank you Galen Erso) it was a terrible one because the attempt to exploit it would have failed without the presence of that one guy with rudimentary understanding of and skill with space magic. All the fighters who weren't forced to retreat were shot down. And even Luke was just a second away from being made into space dust before Han and Chewie saved his sorry butt.