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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have no problem with the bombers.

From a functional design it works. There's artificial gravity inside the bomb bay and once they fall out of the floor they will continue in space on their inertia.

From a style point of view it works. Space battles in Star Wars was always a love letter to world war 2 dog fights. They are planes in space, not space ships. Always have been.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The love letter to dogfights thing doesn't excuse complete stupidity. I'm not expecting Babylon 5 level of good space battles, but at the very least they could have treated it as a "escort the torpedo boats" fight and not a "bombing ground targets but in spaaaaaace". Some one should have taken one look at the script/plan for that scene and said, "No, that's stupid."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What about the lasers with bullet drop in the same movie?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not familiar with that.

    Important to recognise they don't shoot lasers in Star Wars. Their energy bolts have mass.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honest question then - would the relatively small rebel (resistance?) ships have enough mass to generate a gravitational field that would have affected those energy bolts? Because they're in the vacuum of space IIRC.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Star Wars is first and foremost a fantasy series, not proper sci fi. Again, I don't know the specific thing being referred to here, but this is a film series where people with magic powers fight with swords. Things that look cool take precedence over things that make scientific sense.

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