Star Wars blu ray in September
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Too Much Garlic
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Yeah, spread out in a line, no less... not strategically placed all around the planet, but in a freaking line... and what does he do... he flies directly towards one of the ships. :facepalm:behave
Shadow345
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Perfectly reasonable tactic, the enemy wouldn't predict that somebody would do that, catching them off guard.
You also forgot to mention that every single blockade ship is facing AWAY from the planet.
Well the droid army had the planet locked down, so nobody was getting off. The major threat would have been incoming freighters trying to get supplies to the planet. So it would have made sense to be facing away from the planet with your hangar bays facing into space.
Well the droid army had the planet locked down, so nobody was getting off. The major threat would have been incoming freighters trying to get supplies to the planet. So it would have made sense to be facing away from the planet with your hangar bays facing into space.
Well, if the blockade is meant to prevent ships from entering and leaving the planet, why didn't they have some ships face one way, and some face the other way?
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
Okay I'm not one to defend the prequels, but this is a ridiculous nitpick. :rolleyes
The blockade formed a "ring" around the planet and Olie flew straight toward it. So what?
Are you trying to say that if he had flown in any other direction those blockade ships would not have moved at all? They just would have sat there dumbfounded watching the Queen's starship zoom away and say something like "Huh! Didn't expect that move!"
Or that they wouldn't have deployed a hundred droid fighters to intercept a ship traveling perpendicular to the blockade ring?
Oh and I guess the ring shaped Trade Federation vessels don't have weapons that point backwards either.
The ship is shaped like a doughnut. It's ROUND for crying out loud. Even if the guns were in a fixed position, pointed in one direction away from the ship they would have guns pointed in all directions because the ship is ROUND. :rolleyes
I mean I know the Neimoidians aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, but really? Wow. :rolleyes
Olie flew straight for them to punch through their line. Perhaps he believed the ship could withstand the assault, and perhaps the Federation believed they could easily blast them out of the sky. They were both wrong. :rolleyes
Kevin
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Qui-Gonzalez
Master Member
The Trade Federation ships had turreted turbo lasers. What difference does it make which direction they were facing? Eeeesh...
Solo4114
Master Member
It could also be that the shortest path to escape the planet's gravity well would be...exactly along the line that the ships had placed themselves, given where the space ports on the planet were.
Think of it this way. If Cape Canaveral is Earth's major spaceport (just go with me on this), then it would make sense to position a blockade of earth in the shortest path from a straight shot out of Canaveral, rather than to try to blanket the whole globe. The reasoning being that you're not gonna take off from Canaveral and fly to, say, Tierra del Fuego and THEN "turn right" and head for space.
That kind of stuff I can let pass.
What I can't let pass is goofy Jamaican duck-lizards and doofy Trade Federation guys who don't sound like threats, but rather like yet more bad comic relief.
Think of it this way. If Cape Canaveral is Earth's major spaceport (just go with me on this), then it would make sense to position a blockade of earth in the shortest path from a straight shot out of Canaveral, rather than to try to blanket the whole globe. The reasoning being that you're not gonna take off from Canaveral and fly to, say, Tierra del Fuego and THEN "turn right" and head for space.
That kind of stuff I can let pass.
What I can't let pass is goofy Jamaican duck-lizards and doofy Trade Federation guys who don't sound like threats, but rather like yet more bad comic relief.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Yup... they could have. But Ollie made it easy for them to fly directly to them instead of giving them something to chase. I'm sure everyone trying to escape would go right up to the jailor and hope for the best. :behave
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
You mean like when the hero would go right up to a guard and knock them out to escape (as seen in who knows how many episodes of The A-Team, Trek, Old West movies). It's written as much for kids as adults remember.
And they still got through didn't they.
Kevin
Vermithrax 4
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None of this really matters, guys, because, y'know...the hyperdrive is leaking. :lol
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
I've seen all of that and maybe I missed those episodes and Westerns where they go straight up to the guard, waving their arms around, right out in the open, thinking it's a good idea to go up to the man with the gun, when he's looking and aiming right at you.
Must confess, I'm glad I didn't see any of those, 'cause that's just absolutely retarded, and don't even play as in-your-face comedy. The ones I saw had them sneaking up to the inattentive guard and took him out before he could alert others. And the times the alarm had been tripped... they chose to sneak out where no one was watching... and the big chase scene ensued.
Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Who or what is 'Olie'? I've seen the thing a couple of times but no 'Olie' entered my consciousness, just some non-entity sitting at the controls. How do you guys know the names of these nothings?
niennumb1
Master Member
Action figures. That was the only way I knew back in the day. One of the first waves had Ric Olie and I never bought it because I thought it looked lame before the movie was ever released, ha!
I remember going to the big midnight release and saw that toy and said, "Who the heck is Ric Olie?!"
