A lot of them might very well be illiterate of course.
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OMFG. SPOILERS, Mofos! I haven’t even caught up.
“Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you”… He sounds pretty certain in episode 4. But as Rouge One clearly shows, the transmissions weren’t sent to the tantive 4, they were sent to the larger boat. And freaking sneaker netted through the corridors to the escape pod(s) (since the tantive seems to be just a larger version of what R2 and 3PO ride outta there)
The way I imagined that back-story back in '77, was a small suicide force extracted the plans, and the Tantive 4 just “happened” to be swinging by at an opportune moment. The burst transmission was supposed to be undetectable, but the imps caught some back-scatter and put it together before the blockade runner could make a clean getaway.
Nowhere in my imaginings, was there a massive attack by the entire rebel fleet, gone up against an even more massive defense of an entrenched imperial facility. Which then makes the rebellion look pretty spry indeed, to make a clean getaway somehow, and fight their desperate last stand on Yavin just a couple of days later.
Like a planetary probe stealing momentum from a planet to ga in more velocity, Episode 4 can certainly stand to lose this much authenticity to the tiny upstart prequel, this late in the game. And it certainly makes the new movie fly! But Star Wars has always had as much respect for canon as Star Trek has had for the prime directive. It’s fine to refer back to when convenient, but let’s not let it get in the way of making some more money!
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“I did steal the death star plans”
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrD
p.s. super jelly
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The force hold the guy to the ceiling and casually slice him as you walk by was particularly inspiring.
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MEDALS ARE FOR CLOSERS.
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Naw, Wedge bought it on the trench run. He was originally Luke’s wingman.
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Allow me to nerd it up some more in here.
The covert shroud was something used occasionally against the Empire by various forces, as the tractor beams would lock on to the larger ship while the smaller one got away. I assumed the lever was basically known by everyone on board as the thing to pull to allow the faster Corellian Corvette to pull away when it all hit the fan and no signage was really necessary.
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I still find it weird that a guy whose Amiga game reviews I used to read is now a Hollywood screenwriter.
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You have a good observation. But perhaps your military friends always identified with that life and still do even after leaving, its their life, pride, social group, etc. Finn doesnt have those same attachments, he is the garbage man.
So the next question would be… He was a garbage man for a reason, obviously the empire didnt like his cut either, but yet he had received enough training to qualify for a very important small team mission with Kylo Ren to obtain the mcguffin? Unlikely
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No he didn’t. He was disabled. If he died, how did he help in the second Death Star run two movies later?
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Surely this would affect all military hardware, like blasters and light sabers.
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And yet, it’s never shown to, I think in part because the anti-droid weapons seem to use some sort of localized field, as opposed to a blast wave.
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I’m sorry, I was thinking of Biggs Darklighter, you are correct.
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Episode IV starts with an attempt to board Leia’s ship. But we know now that the empire knew that ship was carrying information fatal to them so why didn’t they just obliterate it? Why not destroy that escape pod, because they were looking for a storage device, and it would show negative for living things?
Rouge One ends with an aloof CGI Leia but EP IV starts with Leia actively trying to conceal the information in a droid. She was no more or less in trouble at the end of Rouge One so why didn’t she take action then?
It’s pretty clear from Vader’s questioning that he wanted to know what had happened to the plans. I certainly took that to mean he was concerned they were retransmitted or otherwise ferried abroad. This is further reinforced by the fact that in Rogue One, they jumped to lightspeed - which means they may not have been instantly tracked down as a result.
Different audience? In Rogue One she’s talking to her compatriots. In ANH she’s talking to Vader.
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Oooh… like cracking open the nitrous bottle into the turbocharged V8 in your getaway vehicle or whatever. I could buy that:
Senator Organa: “Son, here, let me explain this to you. I’ve made some special modifications to the Tanty. She’s a good ship. Quite yar… under pressure… So, yes. This lever… You DON’T EVER pull this lever. You got that, kid? NEVER EVER pull this lever! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?”
Kid: “Yes sir! I won’t touch that lev…”
Senator: “UNLESS you are about to be boarded by the EMPIRE! In which case pull this goddamned lever! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!?!”
Oh fuck, I just wrote fan fiction…
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mea culpa. BB has been discussing the latest season alot I forget not everyone has been watching it.
Well a lot of the fleet got either killed in the battle of Scarif or lost when Vader showed up. So that Yavin battle was even more desperate that we first thought. I did like that it still seemed this alliance was weak at best and after Yavin it seems it reformed and strengthened up.
