I suppose I’m the only one whose gonna mistake the thread title for wondering why Ace/Ten and Ace/Ten suited make a set on the flop “so easily?”
I think the rear gunner also has a blaster. At least it does in Star Wars: Battlefront which is a LucasArts game so I assume it has his seal of approval.
Well you got your fill of robots now in Episodes I-III!
Poor rear gunner. He has no job. The pilot flies, navigates, and fires the main guns. The rear gunner has a pop gun on a rope that would be pointless is they were up against reasonably designed tanks.
And he doesn’t even got to have control over his little popgun. Listen to the dialog when they they that tactic:
“Cable out…Let her go!”
“Detach cable!”
“Cable detached!”
The pilot had to give the order to the rear gunner when to fire, when to reel it out, and when to cut off the cable. Threepio could have done the job better.
Because Lucas has been so consistent with his canon. 
One other thing that buigs. On the battle of Endor, the Eqoks construct two logs to swing pendulum-like and hit a walker in the head, crushing it. I dunno, but it seems to bme that although they woudl certainly do damage they wouldn’t crack the hul’ like an egg. There would be damage, but I would have thought they were more solid than that.
You also, perhaps, would have thought that a stormtrooper couldn’t be neutralized with rocks and sticks…what with that tough armor and all.
You know, you’re right. If that kind of force was applied to a modern tank like the Abrams it certainly wouldn’t crack. I know the AT-ST isn’t the heaviest vehicle out there, but it has to be tougher than an early 21st century tank.
You know, you would think after the 100th time I post without previewing, and therefore expose myself to the humiliation of numerous typos I would learn to preview.
But no.
Yeah, sure, if they were normal trees. But those are… um… space trees! That’s it! Space trees with an abnormally high density and mass!
What always bugged me about that scene was, how the hell do a pack of three foot high teddy bears cut down all those trees? And then position the logs by hanging then from trees and such, without any sort of machinery? Without the Imperials finding out? And in only about twenty minutes after Han and the rebels get captured?
I think they rigged it up before the rebels went off to the base.
And they probably figured out pulleys and such. I mean, they live in huge treehouse cities way up in the air.
Well, duh. They’re really harpoons to hunt ice-whales.
Why wouldn’t the coyote be dead after he slammed into a cliff face on rocket-powered roller skates?
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I just saw this last night and it sure looked like the gunner had a weapon.
I could be wrong.
I’m not debating that silliness of the AT-ST being squashed by a pair of trees, but I’m not so certain that a tank wouldn’t be mashed flat. With a few back-of-the-envelope calculations and assumptions (6’x30’ perfectly cylindrical* logs of the same density as red oak, 14.8 lbs per board-foot), we can determine that each log would end up weighing about 150,000 lbs. Swing two of them on pendulums so that they meet on either side of an A1 Abrams at precisely the same time, and I doubt the tank would survive.
- 'Cause it becomes a front-of-the-modeling-tool calculation if you don’t assume a perfect cylinder.
We’re whalers on the moon!
We carry our Harpoons!
But there ain’t no whales,
so we tell tall tales and sing a happy tune.
I think it was said best on the old Brunching Shuttlecocks website; “These walkers can take anything you throw at them… except wood.”
Overanalyzing Star Wars is like dissecting a frog. You can learn a lot but the frog dies in the process.
Those damn teddybears are amazing lumberjacks, being able to cut down and make traps out of 150,000 lb trees in a matter of hours.
Thy’re OK. Sleep all night, work all day.
There’s nothing in the movie that says that they came up with the traps in those few hours. Given that the Empire had been there for some time, they might well have taken weeks or months to construct them, but never had the opportunity to use them until the AT-ST was drawn away from the base in the chaos of the Rebel assault*.
On the other hand, the image of dozens of ewoks frantically sawing away at mammoth tree-trunks, sawdust flying, is pretty damn funny. 
- Now you know where the game name came from**.
** And no, that wasn’t put there solely for the rhyming opportunity.