Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
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?