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Questions in Star Wars Episode IV?
1. Why exactly does Obi Wan let Vader kill him. Was it cause he needed to accept death to become a force ghost cause in III, Yoda alludes to Qui Gon exising in the force and he didn't accept death. If it was to distract the empire and Vader so Luke and company could escape, wouldn't fighting Vader be a better distraction?
2. Why do they fly the Millenium Falcon to the rebel base if they're sure the Empire is tracking the ship. Why willingly walk into a trap when there are other ways to get the plans to the rebels?
3. Where's the death star's tractior beam the 2nd time. Obi Wan doesn't tell Han and Luke what he's going to do exactly and there's a chance he could've only killed the beams generator. Had the beam been on the rebel's attack couldn't happen yet it's totally unaccounted for
4. Why don't the empire guard the one point that could destroy the death star. Rebel engineers figured out where it was in a rlly short period of time yet the empire didn't know about this weakness and make sure it was protected
5. Why doesn't Vader and the empire itnerept the rebel ships at the point on the death star they're going to rather than chase and pursue them
6. Why doesn't Chewie get a medal at the end
And yeah I know some of them are just for the sake/convience of the plot but still errors I noticed the first time I;ve watched the movie since I did as a little kid
I thought Chewie was in the Falcon w/Han at the end. But if he wasn't in the battle why does he go up in the presentation at the end with Han and Luke?
...- Like I said I understand it's just a movie but still surprised methat Lucas who's been shown to be so OCD about details (A special showed that in III duing the Anakin/Dooku fight, there's space fighters' battling outside and that Lucas assigned staff members to diagram an accurate battle outside so as not to miss anyb details). Seem's odd someone who monitor such miniture details yet miss more obvious flaws
3 Answers
- mauriceLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
obi wan didn't die when vader struck him. he disappeared into the force before the final blow. yoda taught him how to do it after the events surrounding episode 3, when yoda told him qui gon found his way back from the nether regions of the force (or words to that effect).
han didn't believe they were being tracked. he was a little big headed that way.
the second death star was 'incomplete'. the weapons were "fully opperational" but maybe the tractor beam wasn't. the shields needed to be opperated from the endor moon.
the empire guards and engineers didn't realise the "week spot" until it was too late, and tarkin wouldn't give the order to evacuate as he believed his (and the emperor's) own hype.
- ?Lv 710 years ago
I think the real answer to your astute questions is that Star Wars is meant to be an affectionate homage to B-movies and serials that the authors enjoyed as children. The important thing was for the film to be enjoyable and for the dramatic parts to happen (somehow). It's not meant to be a canon for a new religion, or it wasn't at that time. But I wish Chewy had gotten something. I wonder if Han Solo even paid him...
