something I always wondered about the PT — Page 3

Bobocop said:

Now keeping Luke's last name as Skywalker with an "old wizard" called "Old Ben" Kenobi so close by when they're supposed to be hiding? Now that's pushing it. (I realize it wasn't originally quite like that until Empire and Jedi, but its an early example of Lucas' retconning without covering all his bases)

 
I blame the prequels for this. Even after ESB and ROTJ, this didn't seem that absurd, because Tattooine really felt like an out of the way speck of dust in an enormous galaxy full of of the "speck of dust" planets.

But by tying the planet so close to Anakin, and making it a location that we see in all three prequels, it seems like a common stop when traversing the galaxy.  It suddenly make Vader and Palpatine look like complete idiots.

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Sadako said:

Sound in space is sometimes handwaved by creators as something that the ship's computer creates for the benefit of the pilots. I can buy that, I suppose...

Wait, what?

TV's Frink said:

Sadako said:

Sound in space is sometimes handwaved by creators as something that the ship's computer creates for the benefit of the pilots. I can buy that, I suppose...

Wait, what?

Basically, if someone farts outside the Millennium Falcon in space, the onboard computer will simulate the sound of a fart so that it will appear that the guy's fart in making noise through the hull of the ship, even though there really is no fart sound passing through the vacuum of space.

Frankly, it's a stupid explanation, just like "relativistic shielding".

So does the ship's computer create the sound for us watching the movie outside the ship?

Perhaps I missed something in the conversation, but it's stupid because we're out in space, watching events unfold.  If "space sound" is heard in the ship, fine, whatever, but why would we hear it outside the ship?

I recently watched a documentary about how the Codex Sinaiticus put some got some Christians into a spin because it's version of the gospel of Mark ends with the Angel telling the Marys that Jesus had risen but they are too afraid to tell anyone.

By inference they must have told someone or God revealed this to someone else or how else are we to know the tale? But apparently to some without a more direct explanation of how the good news got out the story falls apart, even though you have miracles and the like popping up throughout the text.

Similarly the mind game I play is that the camera crew exist inside an air-filled space pod. So the sounds in space are caused by outside vibrations of the hull making there way to the microphone through the air in the pod but where that puts John Williams and the LSO microscopic symbionts only know. The sounds got in the mix we can infer this by our hearing them we don't need to know how they got there for the story to work.

Monroville said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

Sadako said:

Sound in space is sometimes handwaved by creators as something that the ship's computer creates for the benefit of the pilots. I can buy that, I suppose...

Wait, what?

Basically, if someone farts outside the Millennium Falcon in space, the onboard computer will simulate the sound of a fart so that it will appear that the guy's fart in making noise through the hull of the ship, even though there really is no fart sound passing through the vacuum of space.

Frankly, it's a stupid explanation, just like "relativistic shielding".

 Don't let the writers of FAMILY GUY read this.. you KNOW what will happen next.

 Don't worry, I don't think they can read.  They certainly can't write.

^LOL

Places change over time. It would have been almost boring an unimaginative it Tatooine was the same place in the PT as it was in the OT.

Ryan McAvoy said:

OBI-WAN37 said:

Places change over time. It would have been almost boring an unimaginative it Tatooine was the same place in the PT as it was in the OT.

 Yes kinda like records... you need to change them.

 Those are like two completely different things. Would Star Wars for instance be a very interesting story if the whole Star Wars galaxy remained under the Empire's reign? Of course not.

Hold on, Ryan just agreed with your point and now you're disagreeing with him? I don't get it...