Monday, July 18, 2011

Blue Harvest and misconceptions about 'Star Wars'

(Episode 4:A new hope for the anal)

Since Family Guy's Blue Harvest was on last night
I thought I'd put in a few erm corrections:

1.Luke wasn't going to join the Rebellion, he
was going to join erm 'the Academy': a Galactic
pilot school, one holdover from the Old Republic.

On being accepted there would have been a possibility
of him being conscripted into the Imperial Navy.
Although this wasn't exactly explained in the film
so we can let Seth Macfarlane off on this one.

2.Kessel Run in how many parsecs: this is Han Solo's
skill as a navigator as he was able to calculate
the shortest route through the Kessel Run.

3.TIE: stands for 'Twin Ion Engine', but having
Thais is a bit of an obvious gag!

Oh, kudos on Ewok violence in 'Its A Trap'.

It should be pointed out, although again
in-film this isn't exactly explained, that
Stormtrooper armour is generally proof
against blaster bolts, except at extreme
close-range.

Weak points would be the goggles worn by
the Scout Troopers and the elbow and shoulder
joints in all armour types. Which would be
vulnerable to stone-tipped pointed arrows.

Which is exactly the point, the Ewoks are
generally as effective as the Rebel forces.

Oh, and the Ewoks either used meteoritic
rock in their arrowheads or knew something
about geology and mining. And building
tree-cities also.