ray_afraid said:

imperialscum said:

Bingowings said:

Your opinion seems to be putting every last wing in the air a moment of desperation is silly, indeed sillier than...

See what you just did there? You just assumed that they had more fighters than pilots. It is just your opinion (which is not very logical). And my opinion is that, logically, rebels had pilots in reserve. Picking Luke over them is the silly thing here. Much sillier than picking C3PO.

WHY would they send Luke instead of other trained pilots who would be left just standing around? THEY WOULDN'T! It's supposed to give the audience the idea that the desperate Rebels have so few resources that they will take anything/anyone they can get.

And that is exactly what is illogical and silly about this thing. It is either they had pilots and picked Luke over them or they didn't have pilots which is just as silly. Even if they had more ships than pilots initially, they would have trained them.

And please don't come up with some excuse like "they just got the X-wings that day and didn't have time to train pilots". It will just make the whole thing even sillier than it is.