Hang on a minute, I’m a bit confused. You’re using a picture of a building to disprove the “Death Star is just a big house in space” statement?
The Death Star is NOT a big house in space; the Death Star is a small planet (or, well, moon) in space. Imagine it this way. When the Empire built the Death Star, they build a surface. A plain, flat surface, like the surface of a planet. And then they build city structures along that surface.
The thing that the MF flew into was a really large building that was constructed on the SURFACE of the Death Star.
Also my point with the image I posted earlier is that they enter by the equator trench…
No, they did not. See the above comment. Yes, it’s difficult to imagine at first, but once you get it, it will be intuitive. You won’t be able to “unsee” it.
However, we can clearly see people standing on the same horizontal plane as the falcon does entering the hangar. They are essentially standing with the south-pole downwards, and the north-pole upwards, and with the Death Star core to their side.
No. They are standing with the core at their feet, their heads facing space, and the north and south poles are immaterial, just like on earth or the moon.
So when Darth Vader came in and said, “Send a scan team in,” he was standing in a building built on the surface of the Death Star, not in the guts of the Death Star. The Death Star is a small planet. You build stuff on the surface.
Ok, show me where these buildings are then. Because I sure as hell can’t see it.
There is absolutely nothing that for me, or for any casual viewer (and I’m not exactly a casual viewer), that suggest that they enter anything else than the trench. The way it’s shot clearly indicates that that’s where they’re going. The angular opening that the enter from on the left-hand side of the screen also suggest that they’ve entered the trench.
If the Death Star had a gravitational pull like a real moon would have had, then logically it should have looked like this;
Are they “lasers” though?
According to Han Solo they are: “That wasn’t a laser blast…something hit us!”
Well, they sure as hell doesn’t act like laser really do.
And that’s my over-all point, or rather the point from the guy in the video, it doesn’t have to make sense. The film never tries to make sense. It’s like Han talking about the Falcon having done the Kessel run in 12 Parsecs. A Parsec isn’t a measurement of time, but of distance. But who cares, it sounds cool, and it makes the Falcon sound like an impressive ship.
Also I disagree that ANH, or any SW film for that matter, follow it’s own rules. I’d barely say that is has any form of rules. It doesn’t need any “rules”, because unlike something like Star Trek it doesn’t have to obey the laws of physics. It’s a fantasy, and you don’t have to explain it any more than you need to explain magic in a fantasy film.
Take the space-slug scene from ESB as an example. Why was there gravity inside the asteroid/slug? Why don’t they question it? Those tiny masks surely can’t be airtight enough to serve as spacesuits? There’s no pressure chamber on the Falcon, or at least not one that they used, they simply walk down the ramp. There’s nothing about that scene that makes any scientific sense. But it doesn’t have to, that’s the beauty of Star Wars.
