Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
The way I roll along with this is blasters are just "clumsey and random". At first I thought there was a huge contradiction between Ben's "And these blast points too accurate for sand people.", and the way Han Luke Leia and co. just keep running all over the Death Star with nothing hitting them the whole time. Then I explained it with the idea that they were just letting them escape which was the case, but it never sat well with me that they never seem to get better in the rest of the saga. Now the way I see it is that blasters are just really hard to aim because the energy bolts themselves have a bit of randomness to them. And Ben's statement about the "blast points" were really reffering to the locations they chose to take out on the Sandcrawler. They knew exactly where to hit it, not that their aim was "so precise". Now I'm all good with all of it.
The way I roll along with this is blasters are just "clumsey and random". At first I thought there was a huge contradiction between Ben's "And these blast points too accurate for sand people.", and the way Han Luke Leia and co. just keep running all over the Death Star with nothing hitting them the whole time. Then I explained it with the idea that they were just letting them escape which was the case, but it never sat well with me that they never seem to get better in the rest of the saga. Now the way I see it is that blasters are just really hard to aim because the energy bolts themselves have a bit of randomness to them. And Ben's statement about the "blast points" were really reffering to the locations they chose to take out on the Sandcrawler. They knew exactly where to hit it, not that their aim was "so precise". Now I'm all good with all of it.
That may have very well been one of the most TFNish lines of reasoning I have ever read on these boards. There is no reason to over analyis such details in movies, just enjoy them for what they are (movies) and enjoy the story. Lazers in their very nature accurate. Why would they used lazer if they are impossible to aim with, instead of some soilid object? Also Han seems to be able to hit some pretty small objects in just one hit at times (cameras or auto guns or whatever they are before entering the detention block). Also if we were trying to convert Star Wars to reality, the imperial storm troopers would probably be much better shots than they are. The whole point is not to kill off the main characters, while still having them in what appears to be in an extremely dangerous situation, it is pretty typical in movies. Ever seen a Bond flick? Anybody who is shooting at James Bond suddenly becomes an extremely lousy shot. Sometimes it is just easier to look at things from a real world point of view than trying to take things so seriously. If they would have shown storm troopers being good shots then Luke, Leia, Han and/or Chewie would be dead.