Things in movies and TV that really make you wonder
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Jedi2016
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LOL.. I never thought of that.
Granted, the journey was much faster than it was in the first film (advances in hyperspace technology and all), but it was still several weeks if I remember correctly.
SSgt Burton
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Well if we're talking about the length of the trip...
A military cruiser versus a commercial towing vessel.
Yeah I'd say the trip would be faster in the second film.
Kevin
A military cruiser versus a commercial towing vessel.
Yeah I'd say the trip would be faster in the second film.
Kevin
And apparently when they arrive at Cloud City, they are back at the top of the laundry rotation, as they are all wearing the same clothes.
Of course, Chewbacca is naked as always.
Starship battles
I'm looking specifically at you, Mr Star Trek
Why when they need to engage in ship-to-ship combat they need to be 6 feet from each other? I mean, really? Fire a salvo of missles/torpedos/whaever you want to call them from miles away when you first lock-in on them on your scanners and be done with it.
But noooOOOOooooo...enemy sighted so LET'S MOVE CLOSER TO IT. You know, JUST to make sure we can see the crew through their windows...
...which leads me to another space gripe:
Windows on space battleships?
Really? Why? You want to look outside? Mount some cameras and put them on screen.
The Trek movies were more guilty of this - Classic TV Trek had battles from a distance, you'd see photons go out into deep space, then a few bursts as they went off, and Sulu looking in his Scanner stating a hit, or miss as the case may be. Wrath of Kahn was 'in your back yard' kinda battles effects were awesome, set-up was stupid...
SSgt Burton
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MFP 2020
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If the journey only takes days or weeks, why bother with hypersleep?
On the Bespin tip, why does a tibanna gas-mining platform have a human-sized torture device? And carbon-freezing chamber that just happens to work really well for putting humans into hibernation?
And how did the giant space worm know that something was flying out of its esophagus?
On the Bespin tip, why does a tibanna gas-mining platform have a human-sized torture device? And carbon-freezing chamber that just happens to work really well for putting humans into hibernation?
And how did the giant space worm know that something was flying out of its esophagus?
SSgt Burton
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This is an EU answer (I think I may have read it in the Colonial Marine Technical Manual)- being put into hypersleep was not because of the length of the journey, but rather to protect them from the effects of faster-than-light travel (time dilation etc).
Hicks did say that the rescue ship would take seventeen days, so either the time to reach LV-426 has greatly improved since Lambert's estimate of ten months for the Nostromo to get back to Earth, or (simplest answer) the rescue ship would come from an outpost closer to LV-426.
In the conversastion between the WY workers, Lydecker states that it takes "two weeks" for communication to travel to Earth and back. So it takes one week for (really fast) sub space communication to make the trip... Maybe a faster than light ship could make the trip in three weeks or so.
Kevin
Solo4114
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For at least part of the trip, they hitched a ride on the back of a hyperspace-capable Star Destroyer, so that probably shortened the journey somewhat. But as was mentioned, we don't know how long it took.
Maybe Han has a washer/dryer on the Falcon? And dogs don't need clothes.
The carbon freezing thing hadn't been tested (which was why Solo was frozen first), so nobody was 100% sure if this model would work on humans. As for the torture device, couldn't Vader have trucked it in himself? That strikes me as the more likely proposition, anyway, other than something like this:
">HURRPAH< Administrator Calrissian, we shall need to...'extract' information from your good friend Captain Solo. Do you have the necessary facilities?"
"Lord Vader, that won't be necessary. Han will cooperate, I know it. But yes, we do happen to have a fully functional torture chamber. Will you require an electrozapper heat chair, or would you prefer to try our line of lacerating devices?"
Vibrations and exhaust from the ship taking off. Remember, the space slug thing had some kind of atmosphere in its throat, so conceivably it would've been able to feel that. Although the scale of things doesn't quite make sense (IE: would you feel a gnat flying out of your throat?) but then Star Wars films have always had an issue with scale.
The hyperspace thing gets screw up again in the prequels, though, since, apparently, the base for the Separatist generals (Mustafar) just HAPPENED to be RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the center of the Galactic Republic (Coruscant) all along! Who knew?! Unless, of course, Obi-Wan was just hiding out in Padme's ship for, like, a week and a half or something...
SSgt Burton
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Wait Han said something like- "If they follow Imperial procedure they'll dump their garbage before going into hyperspace."
So the Destroyer didn't go into hyperspace with the Falcon attached to it. It was my impression the fleet chasing the Falcon went nowhere between the time Captain Needa declared they had lost the Falcon, and the fleet jumping away.
That's certainly possible. I always thought it was an ad hoc torture device using existing equipment on the station. Much like the carbon chamber being used to freeze a person, they just put some straps on some big arm-like device and placed it near dangerous electrical equipment (it is a mining station after all).
No, no, no... Trips through hyperspace only take hours at most. All of the planets in the SW universe are supposed to be in the same galaxy at least. Tatooine is supposed to be on the "outer rim" while Coruscant was in the "core Worlds" and the trip didn't take a week. So unless Mustafar was like waaaaaaaaaaaaay out there the trip shouldn't have taken long at all.
Of course we're debating distances in a fictional universe; there is no right or wrong answer. We all get a prize. :thumbsup
Kevin
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I wanna know how the Empire got to Cloud City before the Falcon
(according to Lando) if they were tracking it to see where they were
even going. Wouldn't the Falcon need to get to Cloud City before the
Empire knew where they ended up?
Or is this just more of Lucas's bad writing.
(according to Lando) if they were tracking it to see where they were
even going. Wouldn't the Falcon need to get to Cloud City before the
Empire knew where they ended up?
Or is this just more of Lucas's bad writing.
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
What Jay said- and the Empire would probably dispatch a garrison to every possible destination along the route anyway.
So even if there were "other" possible places for the Falcon to arrive at besides Bespin, the Empire would be waiting for them in advance there as well.
Kevin
So even if there were "other" possible places for the Falcon to arrive at besides Bespin, the Empire would be waiting for them in advance there as well.
Kevin
The Rock-a-who
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Solo4114
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So, you still get the sound of the action itself, and the sonic boom of the round, but not the report of the weapon unless you use subsonic rounds.
Seems pretty straightforward.
MFP 2020
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Good catch! What I want to know is how that thing held enough water to completely fill the vast open spaces between the mine and the river and still have enough left over to blast out the tunnel. Is it like a TARDIS?
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