(December 29, 2016 at 10:35 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I don't know what it says about me that the only real time I felt sad was when:
Completely Agree! He was probably my favorite character in the movie, and his death made me tear up a bit.
I think one of the most exciting scenes was when the rebel ship rammed the star destroyer. At first I was like, what are they doing, and about one secondition later, I thought, oh ho! I almost felt like cheering out loud.
Also, a few minutes into the film, I had a big forehead slap moment. I knew this was going to be about stealing the plans to the death star, but I thought it was pretty brilliant of them to include why the flaw is there in the first place. It's been a joke for decades, and a pretty massive plot hole, and they did a great job writing a backstory that actually makes some sense of that.
Of course they created a new plot hole, lol. If they had the technology to build an impenetrable shield around an entire planet, why didn't the first death star get one? We see one around the second death star of course, added protection, but if they'd had it around the first, the rebellion couldn't have just flown in and blown it up so easily.
Oh well. I guess they didn't realize there might be a flaw, arrogance and all that....even though they now know a traitor designed the thing? Meh, it's Star Wars, I'm not going to hate on it for this kind of thing.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
