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magetic fields do not repel rock. and why on earth (now that i think of it) didnt the death star have a good shield in place that not only couldve withstood the blast of an exploding planet (underlined so that were all reminded about what were dealing with) but couldve easily have been shoved infront of the rebels faces and seen them off no trouble?
I don't care about the magnetic fields. Perhaps all those turrets on the Death Star could have blasted any debris that looked likely to hit it. Maybe it did cop a lot of surface damage... and we just couldn't see it because we were mostly looking at it in its entirety from a distance away.
Lastly, you may have a point here. But the level of disbelief I have to suspend here isn't too great. The level of disbelief I have to suspend for things like Qui Gon willingly taking Jar Jar with him everywhere or Anakin falling 500 feet, catching onto a speeder, yet retaining both of his arms (they should have been torn clean off).... well, the level of disbelief here is astronomical. For me, suspending THAT much disbelief was an impossible task. In addition to this, there is no reward for suspending the disbelief.
In
Star Wars and
The Empire Strikes Back, if you let the implausable slide and you suspended disbelief, you were rewarded with rich stories that were really entertaining. In the prequels, if you suspended disbelief, you were only treated to stupid hopelessly contrived plots about uninteresting characters and a support cast that was entirely CGI.
Not interested.
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again, would it really have been so difficult to figure out where Yavin 4 was, then plot a tragectory that wouldve put them in shooting range as soon as they came out of light speed?
I really don't think the Death Star had lightspeed capability, mate. It was always crawling on the screen and when they were orbiting Yavin, the guy on the communicator told Tarkin "We are orbiting the planet at
maximum velocity."
They took the most direct route. The moon with the rebel base happened to be around the other side of the planet when they got there. There was no way they could have got in firing range faster than they did.
Please don't make me resort to the diagrams, Jariten. Because that would just be really childish and I don't want to do that.
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she did know. she sounded at least sure enough so that, even if Han was stupid enough not to want to even check, she couldve done it herself. then they couldve destroyed it easily, or at the very least swapped ships.
The dialogue went like this ->
Han - Not a bad bit of rescue. You know sometimes I amaze even myself.
Leia - That doesn't sound too hard. They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape.
Han - Easy? You call that easy?
Leia - They're tracking us.
Han - Not this ship, sister.
You can read what you want in that. But seeing Han later said
"Look, I ain't in this for your revolution and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well-paid. I'm in it for the money."
it seems that even if he did think they were being tracked, he wouldn't care. He just wanted to drop Leia off and pick up his reward.