Yaknow, now that I think about it, the sheild thing always bugged me. The sheilds can stop attacks from orbit, but they couldn’t stop the guys in orbit from just dropping troops on the planet to attack them that way? 
Maybe the shield was specifically designed for the purpose, and was umbrella-shaped to block attacks from above while being open on the sides? I dunno …
For that matter, why were there no Imperial Interdictor ships in orbit or in nearby space to stop the rebels from jumping into hyperspace once they launched?
I guess it was like the Phantom Menace Jar-Jar shield. Could stop laser blasts, but not the troops carrying said lasers.
As far as I know, the Interdictors didn’t show up until the Zahn trilogy of novels.
When Luke nearly freezes to death on Hoth (han Solo rescues him); but most of his body is frozen. as i recall, they put Luke into some kind of water-filled tank, and regenerate the frozen parts-so why were people walking around without arms?
And: what was jabba enthralled with princess leia (I did find her “slavegirl” outfit rather interesting)?
Maybe the bacta tanks can only repair flesh, and not bone?
Also, why WOULDN’T Jabba be enthralled with Princess Leia? I mean, she’s freaking Princess Leia! Geek sex symbol of the late 70’s/early 80’s! 
She’s a very famous and attractive person. It’s like being able to parade Saddam Hussein around…but one that looks better in a bikini.
If some African warlord were to ambush Angelina Jolie’s convoy, what do you think would happen?
-Joe
Who didn’t have an arm? Luke didn’t lose any body parts on Hoth-he was put in a BACTA tank to repair any frostbite that he might have, the injuries from the Wampa, and to warm him up. Bacta is kind of an all-purpose medicine-for disease, injuries, everything.
He didn’t lose an arm until his fight with Vader, and then he was given a cybernetic replacement-where did you get the notion that he lost body parts on Hoth?
And no, bacta can’t regrow limbs-you get artificial replacements.
I know- in the age of Blasters, perhaps “running at the enemy in a big mass or line” isn’t the best tactic, as it hasn’t been any good here since percussion rifles, some 150 years ago.
Actually, have you SEEN how accurate (or inaccurate) that most blasters in the SW universe seem to be? Running around in the open firing wildly like it’s a game of Counter Strike is probably the most effective way to use most of those things, like a belt-fed Brown Bess. Presumably the more accurate versions used by traveling royalty and smugglers are customized with gunsights or something.
If her movies are accurate, an intricate and entertaining fight scene involving automatic weapons and high-heeled boots?
I always wanted to make an attack run on a Star Destroyer with a Y-wing after knocking out the SD’s shields using the proton torpedo trick against the shield generators. OK, maybe it wasn’t a trick but it was cool. I wonder occasionally if the ion cannons from one Y-wing could have disabled a SD with enough hits. Wish I could get the damn game working so I could try it.
My favorite A-wing mission was the recon mission against the Imperial supply fleet early in the game. If you cut corners around the Imperial ships close enough, the enemy ended up destroying many of their own ships.
Wow, I miss that damn game.
Best EU series.
How about during the attack on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi, the Alliance fleet brings along their medical frigate. What brilliant commander decided to have the medical frigate go into a major combat operation? I can only imagine at the Battle of Midway the US Navy sending in their carriers and medical ships to attack the Japanese.
I usually did pretty well with a Y-Wing in the X-Wing game, especially if I could get me wingmen to stick to mission insteads of just randomly flying around doing nothing. And in the brief time I played TIE Fighter, I’d agree that the Y-Wing was an easy target, primarily because the game AI flew them like shit.
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Ok, I am outta the loop, because this is the first time I heard about the ‘ghost’ switch - which is just absurdly bad. It’s a meaningless update - of course, Lucas screwed it up at the end of ROTS already with the gobbledygook about the process to begin with. It would have been so much better never to have even brought it up.
But if you are going to switch to the young Anakin, then how do you explain not switching to the young Obi-Wan? AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie, it’s only a movie… I need to lie down
That one’s easy. The ghosts take the form of the person at their peak of Goodness. Therefore, Anakin manifests as a youngster, pre-Fall.
Amen to that. Or should I say, again, “Yub Yub?”
Lucas must have the easiest job of anyone in entertainment. Whatever he screws up, he has a legion of loyal fans waiting to explain everything away.
Going to the good side of the force(or whatever it’s called) sounds about the same as accepting Jesus. Vader going over and getting a reprieve is about the same as if Hitler had said “Yo Jesus, sorry about killing all those people, I accept you” and spending eternity sipping Merlot with Moses. Actually Vader was worse since he wiped out a planet.
Strictly speaking, that was Tarkin, not Vader. Of course, Vader was a vital cog in the machine that created that engine of destruction, but he didn’t invent the Death Star himself or give the order to destroy Alderaan.
In the EU, of course, things were a little more grey. Vader basically ordered the continued devastation of Honoghr after the environmental destruction of a capital ship crash, just so he could con the Noghri into providing elite bodyguards/assassins who were completely and personally loyal to him.