Some things I just don't understand...

JediKnightPasJoDacle · Jedi Knight Joined: Mar 31, 2004 Posts: 1223

Ok, I was watching ROTJ and have always had questions about the following, hopefully someone can explain.

1. When the shield generator blows up, it's a huge explossion that looks like it takes out a large part of the forest, yet Han and the rest of the rebels that just ran about 10 feet away from the bunker are completely fine.

2. Who is the Imperial officer that says they are beatting back the rebals and need reinforcements. Does he have a blaster to his head, or is this just Han doing a good impression of an Imperial?

3. When the Emperor is thrown down the shaft and dies, what's the blue rushing wind that comes up the shaft?

Tatooineboy2000 · Jedi Master Joined: Sep 21, 2005 Posts: 351

1.) Just a mishap in the movie. There are lots of incorrect "scaled" explosions and such. Movies are full of them.

2.) It's Han dressed-up as an Imperial Officer. If you've read the young Han Solo trilogy, you'll find that Han was once an Imperial officer.

3.) Palpatine was so consumed by the Dark-Side that it not only crippled his body (as seen in RotS) but it caused his body to literally 'explode' with Dark-Side energy. When the mad clone Joruus C'Boath died in The Last Command, he too 'blew-up'.

Krash · Jedi Knight Joined: Mar 20, 2004 Posts: 3495

Tatooineboy2000 wrote:

Just a mishap in the movie. There are lots of incorrect "scaled" explosions and such. Movies are full of them.

Back when everything had to be done with models, the physics of special effects had a tendancy to get out of proportion with what is physically possible. Which is a long winded way of saying..."oops!"

From an in-unvierse standpoint, the bunker entrance (where the Rebels attack) was refered to as "the back door" meaning it could be fairly removed from the part of the shield generator we see explode, or where Luke is delivered to Vader in the AT-AT. If wasn't until recently that any EU material even mentioned the damage done to the landscape of Endor...after the battle. (Star Destroyer wrekage)

Tatooineboy2000 · Jedi Master Joined: Sep 21, 2005 Posts: 351

Good point. There is a website on the actual physical aspects of Star Wars, which can be found here. www.theforce.net/swtc/index.html

tml1138 · Jedi Knight Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 409

Tatooineboy2000 wrote:

2.) It's Han dressed-up as an Imperial Officer. If you've read the young Han Solo trilogy, you'll find that Han was once an Imperial officer.

They also made an action figure of Han in AT-ST uniform. Came out in the "Saga" years I believe.

Satxer · Jedi Knight Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 805

Technically there's no sound in space either.

anavrin0901 · Jedi Knight Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 795

yeah there is...it is John Williams' music

TheGandZuckuss · Jedi Knight Joined: Jul 08, 2005 Posts: 350

JediKnightPasJoDacle wrote:

1. When the shield generator blows up, it's a huge explossion that looks like it takes out a large part of the forest, yet Han and the rest of the rebels that just ran about 10 feet away from the bunker are completely fine.

I would say that, movie wise, the charges were shaped, not too hard to do really.... it would explain it in my opinion as to why it exploded 'up' rather than 'out'.

And why wasn't half the forest on fire too? or is there a Ewok Fire Brigade that we didn't see putting the fire out? hehe

Beltayn · Jedi Knight Joined: Apr 18, 2004 Posts: 1712

Tatooineboy2000 wrote:

2.) It's Han dressed-up as an Imperial Officer. If you've read the young Han Solo trilogy, you'll find that Han was once an Imperial officer.

I thought it was just the AT-ST helmet?

Tatooineboy2000 wrote:

3.) Palpatine was so consumed by the Dark-Side that it not only crippled his body (as seen in RotS) but it caused his body to literally 'explode' with Dark-Side energy. When the mad clone Joruus C'Boath died in The Last Command, he too 'blew-up'.

And all this time I thought it was the Taco Bell he'd had for lunch...

JediKnightPasJoDacle · Jedi Knight Joined: Mar 31, 2004 Posts: 1223

Beltayn wrote:

And all this time I thought it was the Taco Bell he'd had for lunch...

No, that did play a small role.

TheRandomMenace · Jedi Knight Joined: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 1886

Too bad for him he didn't order an Ewok Enchilada... might've got one or two of the little buggers who helped blow the Death Star up, preventing it from happening.

Every little Ewok counts!

TurtleTrooper · Jedi Knight Joined: Sep 16, 2005 Posts: 341

Actually, if you read some behind-the-scenes thing (i don't remember where i read it) it says that the explosion did blow up a lot of trees, much to the dismay of the model guy who rented the trees from a Lionel train collecting shop.