Originally posted by: Arnie.d
If you think the podrace is useless do you also think flying through the Death Star trench is useless? I mean, they could have skipped all the useless flying in circles. Just approach the thing from the right side and just go for the "target shaft". Useless or not, it's just fun.
If they had approached the target from above the trench, they would have been exposed to the surface guns and torn to bits. That was the whole point of the trench run: It was a daring technique made necessary by the nature of the Death Star. Nothing on Tatooine made pod racing necessary for or logically connected to getting off the planet. They could have just as easily played sabacc for a ship, or stolen one, etc. The race was inserted just to add yet another high-speed fly-through-things sequence and keep continuity with RotJ's "great pilot" line in light of Anakin's reconceptuatlization as a child.
Would you guys feel different about the podrace if it wasn't cg but real models?
If you think the podrace is useless do you also think flying through the Death Star trench is useless? I mean, they could have skipped all the useless flying in circles. Just approach the thing from the right side and just go for the "target shaft". Useless or not, it's just fun.
If they had approached the target from above the trench, they would have been exposed to the surface guns and torn to bits. That was the whole point of the trench run: It was a daring technique made necessary by the nature of the Death Star. Nothing on Tatooine made pod racing necessary for or logically connected to getting off the planet. They could have just as easily played sabacc for a ship, or stolen one, etc. The race was inserted just to add yet another high-speed fly-through-things sequence and keep continuity with RotJ's "great pilot" line in light of Anakin's reconceptuatlization as a child.
Would you guys feel different about the podrace if it wasn't cg but real models?
The pod race was dismal regardless of the techniques used to animate it.