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It looks like there was an overnight paws in the hand puns.
Spoiler: New ComicLooks like that Japor Snippet is rearing its ugly head again.
And now everyone will suspect the flask. So, of course, you should make the stopper magical. :smallamused:
My guess: Padme decides it is time for her to die, and gives the japor snippet to Luke.
At least we know why they remove the helmet this time.
And, of course, the snippet will come back in episode VII. :smallamused:
This page explains the "Why aren't you dead?" question.
If it were Hans instead of Luke, he'd remove the helmet just to inspect the japor snippet and accidentally kill her.
Would Padme want Luke to have the snippet to protect him from Princess, in case she became possessed by Anakin? That doesn't seem very likely, but maybe?
I want an alternate version where Jim plays Luke now.
Man, Nien needs so therapy or something.
Hey, DMM, why use explodium when you can have a magazine of Illudium Q-36 Space Modulators instead?
In fairness it's pretty clear even just from watching the film (rather than reading about it) that the fighters were hitting that thing with missiles, not just poking at it with normal blasters. Those served the same purpose as plane-launched bombs penetrating the topdeck of a battleship in WWII-era naval combat.
Although those were, indeed, the most effective when they got a lucky hit on a magazine. But in canon it kind of made sense that it was a shield projector and they took it out with weapons designed for hard targets. It's just that the SFX department loves unjustifiably large explosions.
Honestly unjustifiably large explosions have been Star Wars's key selling point back to the original film.
Imean, they weren't supposed to be the shield generators. They were originally sensor domes. But when they blew up and immediately after it's announced that the shields are down, audiences assumed that they were the shield generators, and it kind of got retconned in. The big bubble on the underside was originally conceived as the shield generator, IIRC.
Huh. Wouldn't the natural conclusion be that the, er, shield generator on Endor that went down was the shield generator, and the reason it's announced that the shields are down immediately after the dome blows up is that the dome wouldn't have blown up if the shields weren't down?
Maybe, but I don't remember the explosions being unjustifiably large in the first movie. Yes, they were large, but I don't remember them being unjustifiably so. What was unjustifiable was the puny explosion with a nonsensical ring that was retconned into the end of the special edition version. That looks terrible to me.
Part of the problem could be my memory, though. I don't remember what caused some of the explosions on the surface the the death star, which looked like they were pretty large based on what we see here.
Just looking at what's here and here, I think the idea that was settled on was that it is a sensor globe that also generates a small shield. Basically, it would have protected the sensors and the bridge area only. So the main shield generator for the entire ship must have already been down (or maybe it didn't cover the bridge) and now the bridge lost its shield. The one link contains the quote, "Sir, we've lost our bridge deflector shield," but I don't know if that is a change to the dialogue or not.
You do kind of want the visuals to match the narrative importance too. The original Death Star could have had its reactor so slagged by the torpedo that they'd need to build another one but produced only a smoky fart as external evidence of that. It wouldn't match all the hootin' and hollerin' over the victory, so that'd be incongruous to the audience.
No, that wouldn't make any sense. General Calrissian gave the order for all ships to pull up, as he realized the shield was still up. Logically, the only reason to pull up is if they would be destroyed trying to pass through the shield (or the rebels could just go straight for the Death Star openings to fly towards the core). The star destroyers, including the SSD Executor, are all behind the Rebel fleet, and thus outside the area shielded by the generator on Endor. They can only be defended by their own shields, not the planetary shield projected from Endor.
Your last part is probably right, the dome was blown up likely to demonstrate that the ship's shields were down, but the explosion followed by the dialogue lead to the belief that the domes were the (ship's) shield generators. Which was later made true.
Ayep. Haven't looked at any of the schematic or cutaway books in years, though, so they may have changed the belly bubble to something else entirely and gone ahead with the domes for all shielding, just each dome doing different parts of the ship. I dunno.
I know at least some iterations of the belly bubble have been the life support systems. Battlefront 2 did that certainly, and I could swear I've seen it elsewhere.
Possibly so that the Emperor can bathe in the aura of UNLIMITED POWER the reactor exudes? :smalltongue:
Xykon could find something even more amusing to do. Minions and gravity have interesting combinations.
The one that immediately comes to mind is two officers deciding to let an escape pod go due to "lack of life-signs" in a universe where robots are a well-known ubiquitous life-form.