BmB said:
adywan said:
It goes from the most enjoyable scene to the most pointless scene of the movie just like that.
Most pointless scene? Talk about over exaggeration. This whole scene never sat well with me since 1980. It seemed pretty pointless and unrealistic. The Empire have just turned up and started a blockade around the planet. They are preparing to kick the rebels asses. So what do they do? They see the first transport and 2 x-wings heading towards them, with no other stardestroyers in sight, and just sits there and waits until it flies straight at it. Oh wait, what if it suddenly turned away from the stardestroyer? oh well, that one slipped by. Oh come on. If they are their to wipe the rebels out, which they planned to do with aerial bombardments, they certainly wouldn't have just sat there. They would have tried to destroy the transport and it's escorts. Vader knew Luke wouldn't be on one of those transports so they would have been just cannon fodder.
As it stood originally it just looked like an easy escape. There was no sense of danger apart from one stationary stardestroyer that was doing sod all. It wasn't a surprising victory at all. I never felt that the transport was in any danger of being captured or destroyed. I always wondered why they just sat there and so did a lot of other people.
They never change course, they never "just sit there". The reason they aren't firing is because the ships are out of range obviously. They don't do anything when the transport flies past because they are busy being disabled by the ion cannon. It's an easy escape yes, but only because the empire completely underestimated the power of the ion cannon, which it what makes it so enjoyable. Why should it be a hard gritty trudge to escape when you have such a powerful weapon to back you up? That would just be frustrating to watch.
As it stands it has an emotional place in the battle. With your changes it means nothing and is completely pointless.
I didn't say that they changed course i said that they could have, there's a big difference. Who says they underestimated the power of the ion canon? nowhere in that scene does it imply that fact. That is just your interpretation same as my explanation is mine. And i'm sorry but the stardestroyer is just sitting there.And not once did i say that they just sit there when the transport flies past
Why should it be a hard gritty trudge to escape when you have such a powerful weapon to back you up? That would just be frustrating to watch.
As it stands it has an emotional place in the battle. With your changes it means nothing and is completely pointless.
Bit of a contradiction there. You say that originally it has an emotional place in the battle but my changes mean nothing and are pointless in your last line but previously say that it would be frustrating to watch if it was a "gritty trudge" to escape. Well isn't frustration an emotion? and it is a battle after all.
So you're logic is that it shouldn't be a difficult escape because the Rebels have such a powerful weapon to back them up and that the transport should escape as easily as it does originally? So why even bother to provide 2 X-wings as escorts if it should be so easy? And why later on in the battle is Rieekan so worried that they can't protect 2 transports at a time? they got away so easily the first time and surely the ion cannon can just blast any stardestroyer in their path.
I don't just add these things because they might look cool you know. Everything i do is carefully planned out. And things i have added that later on i don't think works, no matter how much time i may have worked on a shot or how good i think it may look, it will get removed. For instance adding the TIE's firing at the falcon firing the Asteroid scene. I really liked it and so did a lot of other people but it just didn't work as there was too much going on in that scene with them added. Without them it showed just how dangerous the flight through the asteroid field was as the TIE pilots couldn't concentrate on both avoiding smashing into the asteroids and targeting and firing at the falcon at the same time. So that didn't work and it was omitted. But this isn't one of those scenes. And it isn't an animated explosion either as i would never use a CG animated explosion, only real ones as were used in the original versions