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Post #1238788

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Shopping Maul
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Return of the Jedi - your opinion?
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Date created
8-Sep-2018, 3:41 PM

Okay, what the hell - here’s another issue I have with RoTJ.

Matters of scale and physics are always dicey in SW, but of course we accept it as part of the lore and style (sound in space, spacial distances, gravitational/atmospheric constants between planets etc etc). However there’s one in RoTJ that always bugged me.

The Death Star super-laser beam would have to be several kilometres across, yet it lands at a spaceships’ width. On the flip-side, placing the DS right next to the Endor moon makes one wonder how the hell these things manage to destroy entire planets. Such comparisons were avoided in ANH, so it wasn’t an issue there.

And why the heck didn’t the rebel fleet just fly to the other side of the Death Star to avoid the beam?