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9:38p, 1/10/24
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And I'm saying that setting that precedent, no matter when they did it, basically ruined an crucial premise of the entire series. Even if they did it in ESB.

After all, why would the Empire ever build star destroyers or even the death star, if it was that easy to destroy them? Why would Luke and pals fly through that trench to destroy the death star when they could blow it up from afar with a light speed kamikaze or two? Why have any of the large scale space battles? It would be like somebody using a spell in the final Lord of the Rings movie that simply killed all the baddies. If such a thing was possible, why send a gazillion people to their deaths for so many movies, when you had the ultimate secret weapon all along?

It makes zero sense.
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In reply to aTmAg • 12:15a, 1/11/24
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This. Why not just make light speed kinetic missiles?
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to aTmAg • 7:58a, 1/11/24
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aTmAg said:
The Porkchop Express said:
aTmAg said:
The Porkchop Express said:
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The Porkchop Express said:
In most other scenarios you're not sacrificing your capital flag ship to win the battle. How many other times is it completely empty except for Ellie Sattler?

Why do you need a flagship? Anything with a hyperdrive will work. Instead of shooting at star destroyers with x-wings, kamikaze them at light speed. Seems like a damn good tradeoff to me.
Well the big ship also survived the collision with the biggest ship the Resistance had, so there's that. And the Resistance/Rebellion doesn't seem the type for suicide runs. Although there is the A-Wing in ROTJ that takes out the bridge of the Executor.
It's not that they "don't seem the type", it's that the writers pulled that tactic out of their ass in movie #8. Sorta like how R2 had VTOL jets for one movie only. Where the hell was that at any other time?
The tactic was also used in an episode of "The Clone Wars, Season 1". So if by "pulled that tactic out of their ass" you meant "used a tactic from a cartoon that came out 9 years before the movie", then you are correct.

R2 had his jets in Episodes 2 and 3..
I moved out of my parents house over 25 years ago. I don't watch SW cartoons.


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8:30a, 1/11/24
i like that this thread has both WW2 and SW nerds going at each other.
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9:34a, 1/11/24
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After the game, we really needed a final scene of Moxon sitting at the table in the gym with his parents, his four month pregnant GF (since we know he got laid after the win), of course the player coaches, with the hats in front of him so we could all do a little hat science and confirm that he really did make the choice to go to Brown.
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9:42a, 1/11/24
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Should have had an entire alternative version of Varsity Blues where Olin Buchanan wears the whipped cream bikini
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12:16p, 1/11/24
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Forrest Gump.

Forrest tells Jenny to take a hike when she "needs" him most at the end. Ten years later he's shown married to a beautiful Lithuanian model skiing Aspen with their five beautiful children.
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In reply to Urban Ag • 1:03p, 1/11/24
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Urban Ag said:
Brian Earl Spilner said:
Leia sacrificing herself with the lightspeed torpedo at the end of TLJ.
Great Scott!

Never thought of it that way.

Imagine that instead of the dumbass Mary Poppins scene, Leia is just mortally wounded. Instead of pink hair, incredibly unlikeable, Laura Dern character (not even needed), it's just mortally wounded Leia who busts Poe's balls because she knows she is gonna die anyway and doesn't want him to try and white knight her.

Then imagine that when Leia does die, it's felt through the Force to Luke, Rey, Poe, Chewie, and best of all, Kylo. Move through each character. It hits. The blank face recognition that they know she is gone.

Yeah that could have been epic. May have even saved the film too.
A long time ago on the Star Wars thread, a poster who I can't remember made this suggestion.

Instead of Holdo in a prom dress, the captain of the ship should have been Admiral Ackbar. He's the one who sacrifices the ship at light speed to destroy the First Order ship. When he realizes what is happening, the captain of the ship screams:


"IT'S A TRAP!"
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The Porkchop Express
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In reply to Malachi Constant • 1:06p, 1/11/24
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Malachi Constant said:
Urban Ag said:
Brian Earl Spilner said:
Leia sacrificing herself with the lightspeed torpedo at the end of TLJ.
Great Scott!

Never thought of it that way.

Imagine that instead of the dumbass Mary Poppins scene, Leia is just mortally wounded. Instead of pink hair, incredibly unlikeable, Laura Dern character (not even needed), it's just mortally wounded Leia who busts Poe's balls because she knows she is gonna die anyway and doesn't want him to try and white knight her.

Then imagine that when Leia does die, it's felt through the Force to Luke, Rey, Poe, Chewie, and best of all, Kylo. Move through each character. It hits. The blank face recognition that they know she is gone.

Yeah that could have been epic. May have even saved the film too.
A long time ago on the Star Wars thread, a poster who I can't remember made this suggestion.

Instead of Holdo in a prom dress, the captain of the ship should have been Admiral Ackbar. He's the one who sacrifices the ship at light speed to destroy the First Order ship. When he realizes what is happening, the captain of the ship screams:


"IT'S A TRAP!"
It was me, although technically the guy in the photo is killed by the bomber raid at the start of the movie. I suggested Hux be the one to yell it's a trap, but he only gets "TR" out before the ship hits the fan.
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 1:10p, 1/11/24
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This is the way TLJ went down according to my brain. I remember reading this and really loving it.
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1:29p, 1/11/24
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C3P0 doesn't have his memory wiped and explains everything to Luke as soon as he sees him.
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1:39p, 1/11/24
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Pretty Woman and American Psycho are pretty much the same movie right up until Richard Gere decides not to murder Julia Roberts with an axe. Missed opportunity there, for sure.
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In reply to One Eyed Reveille • 3:31p, 1/11/24
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Arrakis ecologist said:
C3P0 doesn't have his memory wiped and explains everything to Luke as soon as he sees him.
YOUR FATHER IS A MASS MURDERER GET AWAY FROM ME!


DONT KISS HER YOU IDIOT, SHE'S YOUR SISTER!

THE OLD MAN IS LYING, THAT CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW CRAP IS BANTHA POODOO!
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to The Porkchop Express • 3:38p, 1/11/24
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Nvm
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In reply to HarleySpoon • 3:54p, 1/11/24
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HarleySpoon said:
Forrest Gump.

Forrest tells Jenny to take a hike when she "needs" him most at the end. Ten years later he's shown married to a beautiful Lithuanian model skiing Aspen with their five beautiful children.


Forrest Gump could have been made into a porno - His mom banging his teacher, he banging Jenny in the dorm room, he and Bubba and Lt Dan having a gay threesome on the shrimp boat. Hey, sex sells. Could have made the movie successful…..
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