DominicCobb said:
I’d say there are quite a few things that fans complain about in TLJ are far easier to ‘just go with’ than this sequence. I mean just look at the falling bombs complaint, ESB has multiple instances of gravity in space.
So Dom, you’re comparing:
- The unknown workings of a city’s garbage disposal system (that we get to see for a matter of seconds) where the main central shaft clearly narrows to an unseen point at the bottom (as seen from outside as well when approaching the city), creating a natural sloping surface to capture anything falling straight down and as Wook pointed out, there is clearly negative pressure or directed air currents to direct garbage or whatever they’re disposing off into one of these many groups of collection ducts (so it doesn’t just randomly smash against the inner sides of the shaft) that sucks Luke in, who then slides away some distance before falling through another tube and sliding some more distance and out of the external hatch.
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- Something clearly breaking the laws of basic physics (that we’ve known about and quantified for hundreds of years) in the absence of anything extra to give the audience a clue as to why it suddenly appears that there is Earth levels of gravity in space directly below the bomber, aimed at the Dreadnaught?
If they had actually shown that they’re propelled downwards by some type of ejector / launch system or it’s inferred there is some artificial gravity generation system normally used for ship decks but projected beneath the bomber to accelerate the bombs, then it would have been fine. The fact that they’re obviously making a call back to World War 2 bombers with defensive ball turrets who literally dropped bombs out of their underside bomb bay doors doesn’t help the scene as that’s the correlation you automatically make when they have to fly “over” the Dreadnaught to “drop” their bombs. Where if they were actually designed for space combat they literally could have flown straight down towards the top of the Dreadnaught and launched the bombs directly in front of them with their ships own momentum and at far greater speed.
These movies are built on loose sci-fi concepts with some grounding in our current understanding of physics so we have reference points to understand what is happening or extrapolate meaning from, but it’s when events are completely divorced from them with no other reason given that your mind says “hang on a minute…” regardless of the level of disbelief suspension (unless you’re already watching a movie who’s physics have been clearly established as different to ours).
Also there is this (watch to the end, trust me! XD): https://youtu.be/rCgRfqY8dzw