Typo wrote:Bakustra wrote:
That's not quite supported by the film: one of the bridge crew reports "We've lost our bridge deflector shield", so the shield was actually down when the A-wing hit, and the bridge is clearly vulnerable to attack without the shield, as Piett orders intensified firepower around the bridge to keep Rebel ships away.
So, if one Rebel capital warship target the "Executor" bridge, after the shields are down, and hit the bridge the "Executor" is doomed?
That is a capital design flaw!
Yeah, sure, if you want to think that way, but don't go attributing it to me. Alternately, you could realize that I only said that the bridge is vulnerable with the shield down, and the crew on the bridge might want to protect it so they can, you know, not die. Also, the
Executor doesn't actually "die" until it plunges into the DSII, but that's a secret. Don't go spreading it around.
By the way, it seems, in the films, that George Lucas, after realised the Empire is too strong, put some stupid flaws in imperial ships (the extreme weakness of the unshielded bridge of the "Executor"), bases (a small torpedo down a small hole is enough to destroy the "Death Star I"), tactics (the Emperor`s order to the fleet to stay quiet in the Endor Battle, and only stop the Rebel to run away) and strategy (the idea that fear is enough to control the planets, when, in reality, only make more people atracted to the Rebels ideals) to give a chance too the good boys...
Stupid flaws? Okay, did you know that a modern fighter jet would also probably destroy the bridge of an aircraft carrier if it rammed into it? It's true! But I guess that modern ships are just full of stupid flaws, too.
The Death Star has one weak point on a 160-km diameter vessel. That's an incredibly stupid flaw, you're right. I suppose that in the original script, the Death Star was destroyed in a colossal duel of starship against starship, that ended with the Rebel ship turning into MegaMaid and kicking the Death Star into a black hole to score the winning point of the Empire-Rebels space-soccer game.
It couldn't have developed as a deliberate homage to a pair of WWII movies and a reference to the story of David and Goliath, which itself reflects the conflict between the Rebels and the Empire, that's just silly. It's a flaw. The same with the decisions of the Emperor- they cannot be hubris and thus the cause of his downfall, it's just stupidity.
I'm also well aware of Star Wars' status as an outwardly philosophical film about the rise of a popular movement against an unpopular government, though it simultaneously lacks deeper meaning, as a part of the anti-cinema movement. Clearly the idea of ruling through fear is unique to fictional civilizations, as no ruler in human history has ever made use of such an obviously ill-conceived notion.
Okay, enough sarcasm for now.
Invited by the new age, the elegant Sailor Neptune!
I mean, how often am I to enter a game of riddles with the author, where they challenge me with some strange and confusing and distracting device, and I'm supposed to unravel it and go "I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE" and take great personal satisfaction and pride in our mutual cleverness?
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