Star Wars Post-Watching Thread

Post by **Raveen** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:44 pm

Can it do that? It's a planet rather than an artificial construct like a Death Star.

Post by **zombywoof** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 3:57 am

Apparently, yes

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:40 am

And people wonder why Star Wars borders the line of fantasy

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Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:49 am

The books had a planet that was alive and could jump to hyperspace, so I wasn't as surprised by one with hyperdrive in the movie. However I need to stop trying to rationalize this whole eating a star business in my brain before I get a headache.

Post by **Raveen** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:51 pm

Star Wars has always been fantasy. But fantasy should be consistent and make internal sense even if it's not realistic.

Post by **zombywoof** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:06 pm

Raveen wrote:QUOTE (Raveen @ Jan 11 2016, 04:51 AM) Star Wars has always been fantasy. But fantasy should be consistent and make internal sense even if it's not realistic.

^ This. It's the internal consistency of the politics and physics that allows for suspension of disbelief. That's why it's hard to accept Kylo Ren: his competence level is not in keeping with what we would expect from young Jedi/Sith.

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:28 pm

Quite frankly, I'm becoming entirely apathetic toward the movies in general. I just hope BioWare can keep up with their content.

Post by **BackTrak** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:05 pm

Of course the planet has a warp drive in it. You can't suck up the mass of a sun, then shoot it at 5 planets without having something to anchor you in place while you fire dem lazorzzzz..

(Basing this on the fact you could watch the beams travel to the planet, so assuming non-photon delivery.)

Based on the amount of time, and the number of planets right next to each other, I'm also going with a 148 planet solar system, with the several planets sharing an orbit. Given the rate of beam travel, the star killer is on the right side of the screen, just off screen. Seeing as it's always facing left, and the beams come in from the left right, going right left, and the lit side of the planets is facing the beam, we must surmise that the star killer has actually eaten the sun in the system they all share. So, blowing up the planets was pretty unnecessary. It should have just eaten the sun, and then went to another system, and blown THAT up! two-fer!!

I was EXTRA HAPPY that there was no "shock ring" when the star killer blew.

Edit: the L and the R washed off my paws at some point... I found my sharpie, and fixed that problem.

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:17 pm

How are the planets lit if their sun was gone?

Maybe they gravitationally lensed the beam around the sun from the other side?

Post by **zombywoof** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:14 am

Really big floodlamps, duh.