mike45

George should have gone with this storyline. Maybe we would have gotten some Super-Jedi knight kid ar a two-headed Lord of the Sith. Sounds interesting

Michael Corvin

This is a rag-tag bunch of rebels with a cobbled together fleet that can't afford the latest technology. Not too hard to believe there.

Would you have the space shuttle flying around the sky on recon missions on Earth? Starfighters are designed for space battle not atmospheric ones. At least that's my take on it.

Yeah, I imagine Obi was 35 and 55 in Ep. 3 & 4 respectively. Ewan looks that age and you could take the "hard life" angle for Guiness looking older than 55 in Ep. 4.

Doc MacGyver

Well when Adama was trying to rescue everyone off of New Caprica, it was clear that the Vipers were actually very manueverable and quite effective in intra-atmospheric combat, so... oh sorry, I'm thinking of something else


EDIT: Something Better*

-Doc

Matthew Ackerly

They went all the way and in Episode 7, she has an inbred child with three ears.

rennervision

My biggest question from episode IV comes from the Death Star battle when Wedge says he's got a problem. Luke tells him he can leave because he can't do anymore good back there. Wedge says "Sorry" then flies off like a little punk.

Uh - excuse me? You can get your cowardly ass back down there in the trench and provide cover for poor Luke! Yeah you'll most likely be shot and killed, but you'll be sacrificing your life for the good of the Rebellion. How could Wege retreat like that with nearly everyone else killed in battle and only seconds left before the Death Star fires?

GuessWho

Who says they didn't start at the same time or at least overlap while the contractors were hired.?

First, the exterior crew builds the outiside of DS1
When done, the exterior crew begins DS2 while the interior designers wrap up DS1
DS1 blows up, but DS2 is already started

Doc MacGyver

Ah, but he made up for his cowardice in command of Rogue Squadron from Hoth on.


-Doc

aintnosin

Luke was raised on a farm, where they do more than just kiss their sisters so the Force didn't set off any alarm bells.

See above.

At first, but "Little Luke" made him forgive her.

megashock5

Why can R2 fly in 2-3 but not 4-6. Really bad decision to do that in the prequels.

aintnosin

There were some incidents involving some flying R2 unit spying on a sorority house on Alderan, so they were banned.

The Bus

Things are easier to do the second time around.

The Bus

Technically speaking?

ATM.

kstublen

Seriously. Had Luke been shot then it all would've been for nothing. Wege's cover could have been very helpful.

raven56706

why is boba fett so popular?

kstublen

Because he is a bounty hunter. Everyone loves bounty hunters. And he is arguably the coolest looking character in the series.

Mopower

The only reason they put Solo in carbonite to see if he could survive it so Vader could put Luke in it for transport. Why did Vader want to put Luke in carbonite for transport? Was it just so he couldn't use the force to escape?


How could a AT-AT shoot thru the shields on Hoth to take out the shield generators but a Star Destroyer couldn't? They didn't have any shields around the shield generators? What kind of planning is that?

Michael Corvin

rennervision

How come after the AT-AT shoots the power generator on Hoth, lights still work inside the Rebel base?

Brack

"Cover" doesn't mean being a target so Luke won't get blasted, but more like hanging back and blasting the bad guys going after Luke. All Wedge would've done was get Luke killed anyway. Han came out of nowhere partly saving the day, since he had weapons.

And remember, Luke wasn't the only one assigned to take out the Death Star. EVERYBODY was.

Heat

Ah, I see. Thanks! I hadn't read the books that filled in the story so I had missed this part.

On a different subject, one thing that always bugged me about the series was that in each movie all sorts of new creatures are shown and all new fighters / ships are shown, but that by the next movie all of the previous ones are forgotten and a whole line of new creatures / ships come out.

I know that they were going from world to world, but the fighters at least should have stayed the same. Oh well, not a big deal.

Brack

Because they're trying to get an edge against their enemy, i.e. faster fighters. Just a guess.

OldBoy

ok, i know this must have been discussed before, but why exactly did Lucas start at "Episode IV" and completely go against all conventional movie, possible sequel wisdom? i had thought that he never thought he would do a sequel because it was so hard for "Star Wars" to get off the ground.

Yavin

Wasn't the "Episode IV" moniker not added until later releases of the film? When it was initially released it was just plain 'ol "Star Wars".

milo bloom

Yes, even barely trained, Vader knew he would be a handful, esp against your run of the mill stormtrooper.

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The shield is a big shield over a good chunk of the planet, (like the one covering Endor). An orbital bombardment would have been deflected, so they landed the ground troops outside the shield and came in that way. (Probably similar to the shield the Gungans had in TPM, it deflected the blaster cannons, but the battle droids could slowly walk through it).
There wasn't a shield around the generators themselves because they figured the bigger shield would hold off anything long enough to make a difference.

milo bloom

Two theories: Lucas was obviously inspired by the old Flash Gordon serials, and kinda wanted to get that "in media res" feeling by dropping you right in the middle of the action.

The other story is that he originally had nine episodes planned, but knew it would take a miracle to finance them all. He knew the "middle" trilogy was the most action packed, so it would probably sell the best, and that the first trilogy wouldn't go over as well since it had a lot of politics and such.

This second theory does seem plausible, considering the political machinations we saw in the prequels, and they were a frequent target of the critics.