Dumb movie question from Star Wars Episode 4
Dave’s on his way to Italy, so it falls on me post blogs. Actually, he told me he has two reviews lined up and will try to post them from Italy, as well as talk about his time there. I expect a lot of pasta stories. Anyway, I know the easy ones to hit are episodes 1-3, but here is a question that has bugged me for a while about Episode 4.
The Death Star arrives in the system with the Rebel base. They are behind the main planet and have to wait 30 minutes to clear it and get a shot at the moon that the base is on, giving Luke and friends the time they need to hit the exhaust port. However, the Death Star is armed with a giant planet destroying turbo laser. Why not just save the time and blow up the main planet? The shockwave and debris alone would probably destroy the moon the base is on. It’s not like Tarkin was that interested in not blowing up planets. Would have been a huge time saver, and in Jedi they were shooting that thing off all the time, so you can’t say it would need to recharge.
For that matter, if blowing up the Death Star was a million to one chance, why weren’t the rebels bugging the hell out of there? They couldn’t leave Hoth fast enough in the next movie. I would have abandoned that base but left the fighters behind to go for that last ditch chance. Makes sense to me.
This cool Japanese Star Wars image I got from Dave’s movie t shirt collection by the way.
Jason
