Sunday: I completely forgot to put a title on yesterday's post

It was a rainy day today.

I had planned on going to get dinner, and maybe some groceries, but I eventually decided to just cobble together something to eat from leftovers.  The rain made it dark and grey out, and I just didn't want to bother.

It didn't help that Star Wars was on television.  Yes, I've seen it a billion times, and yes, I own the DVD sets so I can watch the unedited versions whenever I want.  Still, it was convenient, and once I started watching, it became difficult to stop.


However, even though this was viewing number 1,000,000,001, I still noticed new things.  First thing, Stormtroopers have communication devices in their helmets.  We know this because when Han and Luke dress up like them in the first movie, they have to signal that their com units are broken.  However, when Lando launches the counter-assault on Bespin, none of the STs pass this information to the rest of the Imperial forces.  Did Vader really just take like a dozen people with him in a shuttle, despite having an entire fleet of capital ships from the Hoth invasion?  Even breaking off a single Star Destroyer would give him like 10000 troopers to play with.  It's there when the good guys are escaping, so it can't have been that far away.  In any case, even a quick, "Um, hey Mr. Vader, Sir?  Sorry to interrupt you, and I'd like to ask nicely that you not force choke me, but um...this is trooper XG-378, just so you know, but...yeah.  We just had our guns taken away by some of these Bespin people with Lando," would have been helpful.

"Oh, Lando had Lobot jam all the communication."  Wouldn't that just tip everyone off that he's planning something?  All the communications suddenly jam, and they don't immediately set up a defensive position?

Second thing, the timing is wrong when the Death Star 2 is exploding, and Luke is escaping.  Luke drives the stolen transport off the DS2 just as the ship...bay? (whatever) bursts into flames.  Sure that looks neat, but we then switch to Lando and MF still inside the DS2, racing the flames away.  If they're still inside things, then the explosion of the core couldn't have reached Luke yet.  It's geometry.

"Oh, those explosions were from the Executor crashing into the DS2."  No.  I don't buy that either.  To start with, the Executor shouldn't have crashed.  Let's read that caption, "Arvel Crynyd's crashing A-wing fighter sparked a chain reaction of explosions that spread throughout the Executor."  Therefore, there are two options.  1) The Executor, the largest capital ship in the Empire, an Empire that has blown up a planet and kills people pretty much for any minor infraction, is designed to let a tiny hull breach spiral into a complete loss.  2) The Executor shouldn't have crashed.  There's also an angular momentum argument to make.

So, if we assume that both the Executor and the DS2 are built using legos made of dynamite, then ok, fine.  The explosions around Luke can be from that crash.  Seems a bit unlikely that it crashed at just the right distance from that ship...garage(?) to make flames just at that point in time.

Third thing, this guy:

No, not Lando.

 See him?  Here's a slightly less terrible picture:

Nien Nunb?  No, not him either.  Behind him.

There's a third guy in the cockpit flying the MF.  I have never before noticed him, but he's there.  I decided to look him up, and after a bunch of dead ends (I don't care about the two other guys on the MF that shoot the guns), I discovered who he is.  Unidentified Rebel Navigator.  Really?  Really?  Do you remember those old guys that land on the DS2 with the Emperor when he arrives in Jedi?  No. Of course not.  They're on screen for like ten seconds total.  Here's their article.  It covers an infinite amount of shit about them.  Three of them even have names and super elaborate back stories.  Did you know that Janus Greejatus was basically like Palpatine's childhood friend?  So why is it that like everyone else in the galaxy gets a full life history, but URN gets none of that?  Shouldn't he be like a secret genius who navigates perfectly because his parents forced him to study hyperspace maps all day every day, but this only stimulated latent Jedi powers that enable him to instantly know where he is in space by feeling the effect of the Force, which was helpful when he had to go hunt down the bounty hunter (Boba Fett, obviously) who killed his sister and parents while he was away planning routes that would be used by the Bothan spies that had stolen the DS plans on their escape, but once Fett died on Tatooine, URN was able to return to help the Rebels plan the attack on DS2, and was put on the heroes ship since everyone knew he was the best navigator in the galaxy?  He needs a name too, something like Urnak Maplas.  See, I took URN and hit it with a hammer until it looked like it could be pronounced, and than took "map" and "atlas", and crushed them into one word.

• Logic.
• This is something people should be aware of.
• Note how the election results split geographically for another view on things.
• Laziness.