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QUOTE (Storm @ Oct 28 2006, 11:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Let's assume for the moment that because of the astromech droid you can fly the X-wing with minimal piloting experience. Fair enough....
However, I seem to recall R2-D2 getting blasted by Vader in the Death Star trench, thus leaving the piloting completely up to Luke (and conveniently at the point of the level....I mean movie, where he is flying in a ridiculously tight area AND has three TIE fighters on his back). You can't tell me Obi-Wan's five minute lesson on how to deflect laser blasts with a blast shield on would be sufficient training for him to manipulate the force to a level where he can avoid TIE fighter shots and fire a dead on proton torpedo shot.
Another thought....when Vader finally locks on to Luke's X-wing and says "I have you now" we clearly see he fires at least six shots before Han destroys one of the accompanying TIE fighters. Why don't those shots hit Luke's X-wing? Did Han arriving in the nick of time and firing just "cancel out" Vader's shots?
Insufficient.
In the PT, Anakin also claims he is a "pilot" when he first meets Padme. It wasn't enough for me in the TPM (even with the pod race), and certainly isn't enough for me in ANH (Whoops, I suppose I should refer to it as STAR WARS to prevent people from having their childhoods robbed from them).
However, I seem to recall R2-D2 getting blasted by Vader in the Death Star trench, thus leaving the piloting completely up to Luke (and conveniently at the point of the level....I mean movie, where he is flying in a ridiculously tight area AND has three TIE fighters on his back). You can't tell me Obi-Wan's five minute lesson on how to deflect laser blasts with a blast shield on would be sufficient training for him to manipulate the force to a level where he can avoid TIE fighter shots and fire a dead on proton torpedo shot.
Another thought....when Vader finally locks on to Luke's X-wing and says "I have you now" we clearly see he fires at least six shots before Han destroys one of the accompanying TIE fighters. Why don't those shots hit Luke's X-wing? Did Han arriving in the nick of time and firing just "cancel out" Vader's shots?
Insufficient.
In the PT, Anakin also claims he is a "pilot" when he first meets Padme. It wasn't enough for me in the TPM (even with the pod race), and certainly isn't enough for me in ANH (Whoops, I suppose I should refer to it as STAR WARS to prevent people from having their childhoods robbed from them).
FINE. YOu don't like STAR WARS. You look for excessive realism in Space Fantasy. You don't accept that Luke taps into the Force at the end of STAR WARS,in the trench, and that it is a turn away from mechanization, and a return to animism that saves the rebels and removes the "technological terror" from the galaxy. Even though that was like, one of the main themes of the film. You don't like STAR WARS. Fine. Now just shut up about it, or find some new point that we haven't completely disregarded. Because in case you misunderstand, we all agree that of course the stuff that happens in STAR WARS is impossible. But within the confines of the movie STAR WARS, it's all perfectly within the rules.
PS: in The Lord of the Rings, The Balrog isn't real either.
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