I’m just curious as to what sort of reaction Duderdude expected to get. “My God! He’s right! Why am I wasting my time with this, when I could be out curing cancer?” For fuck’s sake, we take the movie seriously and have these nitpicky conversations because it’s fun to do! This seems like such an obvious and simple answer to this question, and yet there is always, without fail, some fucking moron who can’t figure out that people are talking about a subject because they are interested in the subject, and have to show up to save us all from our hobbies. Christ! How hard is this to figure out? How many times were you dropped on your head as a child that you can’t make the mental connection of “Hey, they’re talking about Star Wars. I guess they really like Star Wars!”
I didn’t see any hundred-to-one mobs in the movie, did you?
And besides, even with 100-to-1 odds, one decent minefield and a few automatic weapons with good spray would have done the job. As Rhum Runner said, not even a clearing…
Poopy Pants is nicer than being a natural predator in a kind of existence?
Well… you could play a villain very well in the SDMB, but there’s no intention to suggest that you are that way in real life… :dubious:
I’m curious that in every thread discussing about real issues from fictitious universes, it comes up an entity, not partisan of the SoD, who tends to try convincing everyone that everything they’re talking about of is fictional… as if they didn’t know.
Check the post of pjd in here. You’ll see what I mean.
So the only thing that exists is what is shown onscreen? Nope, read the novelisation. The ewoks won through sheer force of numbers.
Assuming conventional defense tactics. The Empire, despite anticipating the Rebel’s arrival, had to maintain the appearance of not expecting anyone to get on the planet. Why would they mount such insane defenses if all they had to worry about was the occasional ewok? It’s obvious that it wasn’t until AFTER the Rebels arrived that the native population posed no serious threat to the Empire… hence the lousy defense.
Mods: Please don’t ban trolling entities like Duderdude2. They are exposing themselves enough, and they are vital for the evolution of healthy discussions: preys who seems predators, and they only prey themselves. Think about it.
I do not see myself as a troll. I was merely making a point, one that you could have chosen to ignore (but decided against, apparently), but instead followed up with insults and accusations. I did not pull a random-post-and-leave tactic, but instead stayed and supplied details to back up my thesis. I fail to see how anything I said in regards to Star Wars personally offended you, it’s not as if it was a racist joke, which of course would be unacceptable. It seems if anyone takes a stance opposite of yours, you define them as a “troll”. I find that behavior very interesting. This is my message board just as much as it is your’s.
I do not see myself as a troll. I was merely making a point, one that you could have chosen to ignore (but decided against, apparently), but instead followed up with insults and accusations. I did not pull a random-post-and-leave tactic. You instead stayed and supplied details to back up my thesis. I fail to see how anything I said in regards to Star Wars personally offended you, it’s not as if it was a racist joke, which of course would be unacceptable. It seems if anyone takes a stance opposite of yours, you define them as a “troll”. I find that behavior very interesting. This is my message board just as much as it is your’s.
I’m too stupid to ignore you, is that it? Yeah, that’s the sort of attitude I expected from someone like you. “Hey, it’s not my fault you got pissed at me for acting like a dick. You should have better control of your emotions!” Riiiight.
Heck, it’s not over til it’s over, or until Lucas runs out of money.
I remember one essayist criticizing the original Death Star’s destruction as equivalent to “a bunch of rock-throwing kids overrunning the Pentagon.” Heck, you’d think a major battlestation would have a permanent contigent of major support ships, any of which could blow a bunch of X-Wings away.
Babylon 5 handles some of these things a little better, especially when you see one capital ship launching missiles at another, and the target ship casually shooting those missiles with some kind of energy weapon, or missiles of its own. Defense should be much easier than offense in any kind of space battle.
I am in no position to doubt your SW lore, but, a mine field, a clearing, a few machine gun nests type things = “insane defenses”? Come on! If they wanted to be really crafty about it, they would have laid out the mines, and left the jungle, then once Luke is captured, they could have blown all the furries to hell. Option two, call in some fighter support from the GIANT SPACE STATION IN ORBIT when things start to look bad.! The way they constantly leave massive gaps in their defenses helps move the stroy, no doubt, but it is hugely annoying.
Hey duderdude2, please list some of your favourite things so we can piss all over them.
As for the Empire, why does everything involve “lure them into this trap” (second Death Star, freezing people, let the Falcon get away). Just use your overwhelming numbers and “Shock and Awe” the whiny rebels out of existence.
Double-D 2, It’s obvious you have some sort of opinion on the subject, otherwise your passions wouldn’t have been stirred so much so that it made you open the thread, wait for it, read it and then post here. I’m guessing that you have anger which comes from being unable to create a coherent view of this Lucas universe. My advise is simply don’t try because it’s impossible. Lucas is a very fallible person so there are many contradictions and out right stupid things going on. But it’s still fun to try and come up with a reason. Heck trying to create logical solutions to odd situations is a very fun game. Didn’t you ever play those games at college? Somebody says something wacky and you take and try and form a complete picture. For instance there was a rat on “Last Comic Standing” and Rich Vos composed an entire dossier on the rat. Doesn’t mean anything, it’s just fun.
It should be Bryan, although I wonder how many lives were lost because in our military because some General wanted to do something this way or viewed as Admiral in another branch as a rival.
It’s a great out for these kinds of arguments. Even though it was Lucas’ mistake to make them that way in the first place once you delve into the fantasy world you can just assign most faults to general human stupidity.
