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Having bombing spaceships that bizzarely seem to rely on gravity was a pretty terrible way to open a film.
They weren't using gravity, they were electromagnetic rails that shot the bombs out of the bay into the enemy ships. I mean it's still dumb since you could fire them from further away, just not dumb for the gravity reason.
Yeah, that kind of makes it even dumber to me.
I'm not a 100% sure I understand this. IIRC it was bombing spaceships hovering above a planet dropping bombs into the atmosphere, correct? (Totally possible that I'm misremembering!) In that case using gravity would be absolutely fine.
I could be wrong but I could've sworn that while they were fighting above a planet, they were still "dropping" bombs on a ship below them.
So if the rebels have a ship that works only if you happen to be fighting above a planet with a ship below you, that's even sillier!
Oh, the bombs were meant for another ship, not the planets surface? Then indeed gravity makes little sense, or at least it's a very straightforward and uninspired port of the concept of bomber planes.
But I guess they wanted it to fit in with everything else... :(