oh_riginal said:
Bingowings said:
All three layers of the battle need to be expanded in my view.

I have to agree here. The ground battle has no rhyme or reason to it. It is also incredibly small in scale, even for it's time. Look at the Hoth battle, then look at the Endor battle, and the Hoth battle's epicness dwarfs the battle of Endor by quite a bit. There seriously needed to be more troops for BOTH sides, but more importantly for the rebels.

Well, Lucas should have gone back to the well of movies he grew up on and just have a mountainish fortress with the shield generator, whereupon a small group of rebels re-enact the best parts of GUNS OF NAVARONE and WHERE EAGLES DARE. That is the ONLY way a small group of rebels could have done anything but get themselves killed.

It's like the difference between how the humans fought the machines in the first TERMINATOR movie as opposed to the second one; one they move around in the shadows like rats, the other they throw a full-fledged out in the open assault. One may get you somewhere, the other is just going to get you killed.

If anything, the mission should have been less of a battle, and more of a stealth mission, as the characters expected it to be. More excitement could have been made from a handful of rebels trying to break into a highly guarded base than having a bunch of teddy bears outsmart a few dozen Stormtroopers and a couple AT-STs in the woods on a nice sunny day.

Yup. There you go. Now HOW this could be done is another story ... <:O