Corrected entry: As demonstrated, the Death Star can destroy a planet instantly and yet it has to wait for the moon housing the Rebel base to move away from Yavin before it can be destroyed.so why not just destroy Yavin, then its moon?
Tailkinker
18th Feb 2013
Star Wars (1977)
18th Aug 2010
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: The soldiers inside the blockade runner hear the ship docking with the star destroyer before the two ships even come in contact.
Correction: What they're hearing is the effect of the tractor beam that the Star Destroyer's using to pull the blockade runner into its docking bay. Parts of the ship are flexing under the strain.
23rd Jun 2008
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the rebels are in the briefing room for the attack on the Death Star, the guy explaining the attack says that they will need Proton Torpedos because the exhaust port is ray shielded. When Luke finally gets the torpedos in, there are not any ray shields. (01:40:35 - 01:57:00)
Correction: Just because they're not visible, it doesn't mean that they're not there. You'll note, if you pay attention, that shields in the Star Wars universe are invisible unless they're actually being fired upon, in which case their presence can be detected by the reaction of the laser blasts. Proton torpedoes just go straight through with being affected.
30th Jan 2008
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the empire is invading Princess Leia's starship C-3PO says, "The princess is in danger!" But later in the movie when R2-D2 shows his projection video he doesn't know who she is.
10th Oct 2007
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the rebels are preparing to attack the Death Star, Luke is told that the exhaust port he must hit is only two meters wide. Meters? Isn't it a little odd that the world of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" uses "our" metric system? Especially considering that its units were (originally) based on the circumference of the Earth?
Correction: You have a problem with that and you don't think it's a little odd that they're all speaking English? As with any film of this type, things have been translated into terms that the audience will be able to understand. Standard cinematic practice; not a mistake.
26th Jun 2007
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: The original title for Episode VI "Return of the Jedi" was "Revenge of the Jedi." Mr. George Lucas changed it because he found that this adjective was contradictory to the Jedi way. (Older film posters can be found bearing this title.)
Correction: This is not trivia for this film.
7th May 2006
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: Han Solo uses the word "parsec" as if it would be a temporal unit, like "second", but "parsec" describes distances.
Correction: Kessel is surrounded by a maze of black holes and other astronomical hazards. The challenge for smugglers is to fly fast enough and precisely enough to bypass as many of these obstacles as possible without being destroyed, thus saving time. Han's bragging that he found an extremely short route and that the Falcon was fast enough to get through unscathed.
11th Mar 2006
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: In A New Hope, hologram Leia says that Obi-Wan fought with her father (Bail Organa) 30 years ago, when in reality it was 20 years earlier.
Correction: All that's said in the hologram message is "Years ago". No precise timeframe is ever stated.
24th May 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: If the Death Star did take 18-20 years to build, then it would impossible for them to finish the second Death Star, as there wasn't 18-20 years in between episodes V and VI.
Correction: Well, as is pretty obvious by watching the film, the second Death Star isn't even close to being finished. Standard building practice is to complete the basic structure, then fit out the interior, which generally takes longer than the structure does. As can be seen, the basic structure's not complete, so the interior's going to be mostly a shell, other than the superlaser (installed as a priority) and the support structures that it needs. The second Death Star isn't even one quarter complete at the time of the Rebel attack. It's going to be quicker to build the second one, as construction techniques developed during the building of the original can be applied from the start, so it should be expected that it would take less time, even though the second Death Star's rather larger than the first one. Assuming that they started shortly after the destruction of the original (which isn't explicitly stated - they might have started earlier), it's entirely plausible that the Empire could have built the second Death Star up to the point seen in the film.
22nd May 2005
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: At the end of Episode III, we see that the Death Star is in the early stages of construction. If Luke is around 18-20 years old, are we to believe that it took almost 20 years for the Empire to finish the Death Star?
Correction: Yes, we are to believe exactly that. It's a construction project on a scale unprecedented even with their technology levels. It can take us years to construct large buildings, so it's hardly unreasonable to think that, even with their advanced technology, it could take the Empire twenty years to build a space station that's 75 miles across and involved at least one previously untried technology (the planet-destroying superlaser) and the use of several others on a previously unheard of scale.
4th Sep 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: If the Death Star was the size of a small moon, it would have its own gravitational pull. This renders the Core Generator in the center useless for the Empire.
Correction: Hardly. The Death Star may be the size of a small moon, but you have to bear in mind that it's mostly hollow. Mass-wise, it's not going to remotely compare to a moon made of solid rock; the gravitational pull is going to be negligable, hence the need for the Core Generator.
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Correction: Not all planets are the same. Yavin is a gas giant, orders of magnitude larger than a regular planet - as a real-life comparison, the gas giant Jupiter has a volume equal to more than a thousand Earths. While the Death Star has the power to destroy Alderaan, or the moon housing the Rebel Base, it simply doesn't have the power to blow up a gas giant.
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