Everyone’s in here making excuses but really it’s just not great writing / continuity
thats why I’m here
Yes…there’s many many examples of poor writing and inconsistency.
…but this is just a joke and it stretches the meaning of the ANH scene to make an inaccurate meme. In the first film the point of Obi Wans comments, in my mind, was to highlight the type of weapons used. It’s more of a “parsec” situation. He was trying to describe the actual impact of the weapon and we’re being distracted by the use of the word precise. He should have said “impact spread”, or something else that wouldn’t have made sense to viewers at the time.
the parsec thing is also meant to be a joke in the film. the script calls for guiness to react incredulously to the obvious nonsense but his reaction is very subtle on screen.
yup.
Han was bullshitting them. Remember, Han is a fast talking scoundrel who runs scams on rubes.
For people who don’t know Parsec… is a unit of distance. an object 1 parsec from the sun would be an object that has a parralax angle of 1 arc second. a second of arc is the easiest to explain- it’s 1/60th of a minute of arc, which is 1/60th of a degree. (arc second is 1/3600th of a degree.) it comes to about 3 lightyears.
It would be like saying, “I made the Chicago-NY run in less than [whatever miles]!” when talking about how fast his ship is. The distance is fixed. the kessel run is largely fixed.
well, not anymore. it’s been backwritten into some sort of space-warping area where keeping your distance short is impressive
I ignore that. I prefer the bullshitting scoundrel, to be honest.
Maybe Han came up with that when he got called on it. lol.
Remember, in A New Hope the stormtroopers on the Death Star are missing on purpose. They want to put up a token resistance to let the gang escape with the tracker onboard.
Also, misrepresenting the capabilities of indigenous people isn’t exactly unheard of in this universe or others.
IRL less than 1% of rifle rounds fired in battle by US soldiers actually hit the enemy.
Also, in Star Wars, those Storm Troopers on the Death Star are firing at someone incredibly strong in the force most of the time.
I’m well aware that across most of the rest of the franchise Stormtroopers generally are bad shots.
However I argue that it is easy to view the entire original trilogy as Stormtroopers being competent. A New Hope is easy as you already pointed out that they were supposed to let them go. Plus the off screen extremely effective results against the Lars homestead and the Jawas which is both combat and effectively following the droids.
Empire Strikes Back they are extremely effective with invading the Hoth base. Luke is supposed to get to Vader so that part can be ignored. Then for the rest escaping Lando arranges a lot of surprise trouble for the troops as well as R2D2.
Then for the Ewoks I think almost everyone has it backwards. They all look at how tiny and low tech they are and draw conclusions from that. The more important thing to look at is their results. Not just the main battle but look before that.
- A scout (Wickket) is smart enough to make a reasonable level of basic communication with absolutely zero starting point with Leia.
- They successfully trap/ambush a Jedi and a Wookie and a droid with sensors. Ok yea required some stupidity on Chewies part but still incredibly impressive on the Ewoks part.
- They were literally planning to eat several of the heroes.
- The traps everywhere. They clearly didn’t make the big traps just in the day or two when the heroes showed up. That forest is an absolute death trap and miracle that the trap the heroes triggered didn’t kill them.
- Battle morale at large not breaking under attack from mechanized and ranged weapons.
- Immediate willingness to ride a speeder and a successful dismount in spite of zero clue how they work.
That is just what I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there is more. Honestly they are closer to facing an army of fantasy dwarfs than what people say they are like.
Plus the Empire is pretty fascist, and they would definitely look at the Ewok’s and their low tech society in an especially dismissive way. Then when the Ewoks start winning, this would hit Stormtrooper morale pretty hard.
Yeah but that sniper was the famous raider Swargo Tulponian, there are 3 books in the expanded universe about him
I genuinely have no idea if you’re serious or trolling.
All relevant books were rendered noncanon when Disney bought the property, so it doesn’t matter.
Who gives a fuck what Disney considers canon?
I mean, yeah, a lot of people do, but they shouldn’t.
My favorite nitpick in the phantom menace is in that scene.
In the Cinematic release, and I think the VHS release as well, the Tusken raiding party here is using Slugthrowers, a weapon primarily only used against Lightsaber wielders since it can’t be deflected like a blaster bolt.
When it was re-released for DVD it was changed to a Red Blaster bolt. Personally, I think it makes more sense for the Tusken people to use slugthrowers, since they have access to everything they need to make gunpowder on Tatooine (guano from caves, hydrocarbons from the black fruit sugar), but to attain blaster gas they need to trade with the Settlements, something they prefer against.
Wouldn’t just a light sabre incinerate a slug?
Congrats, you successfully got shot with molten metal instead of regular metal.
It would melt it, spraying the wielder with molten metal.
