>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok who's escorting who? In ANH, why did DV personally go out in TIE-A? His swamps and swamps of regular TIE's aren't doing the job right? So he went out and take care of bussiness. I forgot how many attack waves he shot down, but there were a few. And now come the last wave, Luke's. He's going after this last fighter, oh "the Force is strong with this one!" So do you think DV would be pushing the envelop of his TIE-A to defeat this last attack against Death Star? If he had been 10% quicker taking care of all the other X-Wings and Y-Wings, Luke would be dead and the Death Star 1 would be casually grinding the rebellion into dust. So why would DV held back his speed? Let his nameless faceless disposable escorts catch up and mess things up? (remember how DV lost, his escort panicked and knocked him out) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
He was keeping pace with Luke. He was able to get quite a few shots off and managed to shoot R2. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For ROTS, Jedis were not protecting Clones, it's the other way around. There was even a little dialogue over it "they are doing their job" (i.e. absorb bullets). If Eta-2's were 30% faster or nimbler than ARC-170's then there's no sense to slow down to match ARC-170's speed just to sacrifice them needlessly. >>>>>>>>>> Their job was to be a distraction. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > As far as the Eta-2, I think that their smaller size would definitely allow > them to be nimbler than the larger ARC-170's. They might be capable of > quicker acceleration due to their smaller size, but in sustained flight I > think the larger engines of the ARC-170 would be faster. >From Ep.4-6, there's clearly that sense, bigger ships are slower and better armed, smaller ships are faster and nimbler. The on-screen feel is roughly A-Wing, TIE-I, TIE/TIE-A, X-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE-B, B-Wing If you go by size, then Eta-2 (5.5m) should be somewhere on the light-end near TIE-I and ARC-170 (14.5m) should be on the heavy-end between Y-Wing and B-Wing. So if there weren't that scene of Eta-2 and ARC-170 flying tight _during_combat_, it would be reasonable to think ARC-170 is a heavy fighter with more guns and gadgets (hyperdrive? shield?) Look overall the scene makes sense. The Jedis need to get on the command ship (forgot name) and it's senisble to counter Droid swamps with Clone swamps. But Lucas' particular way to shoot the scene: making big fighters fly in formation with small fighters (V-Wings would have been so much better than ARC-170), result in a small erosion of suspension of disbelieve. I really didn't realize this until the third time seeing that scene (a few days ago on the neighbor's big HDTV), but now I realized it was annoying me subconsciously way back in the theatre. >>>>>>>>>>>>> I can see your point. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> > anything. He was able to complete the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, a > measurement of distance, because he was able to plot the shortest shortcuts. OH GIVE ME A BREAK. Someone made a boo boo in the script, correct it or leave it be, don't dig a pit to hide a pot hole. >>>>>>>>>>> That is what George said in the commentary. He cleared it up because people never got what he was trying to get across. How can you assume what he meant in the first place? -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
