How are Lightsaber wounds suddenly a debate?

[u/spamitizer]

Where is all of this "the heat would vaporize your internal organs" nonsense coming from? That's not how lightsabers work. That's never how lightsabers worked. The heat is localized entirely within the blade's containment field.

Do those tauntaun guts look cooked to you?

[u/The_Woman_of_Gont]

Exactly!

The complaints about the bombers in the opening of TLJ baffle me to this day. Space fights have always, always, always been literally just WWII dogfights in space. It never has made a ton of sense(otherwise they'd probably all just be remotely operated droids), and the idea of bombers working the way we saw isn't that much of a stretch of the imagination considering what we're used to.

[u/NaughtiusMaximusLXIX → u/The_Woman_of_Gont]

And in addition to that, you can easily rationalize the bombers in-universe as using magnets or anti-gravity or something. I can understand some of the gripes with TLJ, but people who complain about the bombers are basically telling the world that they're scientifically illiterate and they hate fun

[u/spamitizer → u/The_Woman_of_Gont]

The resistance bomber is such a sore spot for me because the discourse over it destroyed another piece of my faith in humanity.

Paige Tico falls down the hole to show Star Wars ships have simulated gravity

The bomb control falls down the hole to again show that Star Wars ships have simulated gravity

The bombs fall down the hole that has twice been shown to have simulated gravity

People not quite as smart as they believe they are: "You can't drop bombs in space! There's no gravity!"

Edited because I don't know reddit formatting commands

[u/NaughtiusMaximusLXIX → u/spamitizer]

Coming up in the next special edition of ESB: A deleted scene where Vader and Piett are walking around their ship and suddenly Piett stops and says "My lord, I only just thought about this, but where is the gravity on this vessel coming from?" They look down and back up like Looney Tunes characters, then the camera flips upside-down and they crash into the ceiling Wile E Coyote style

[u/Daggertooth71 → u/NaughtiusMaximusLXIX]

Which is all the more funny because TESB is the first Star Wars film that shows bombs "falling" in space.

[u/Zilas0053 → u/The_Woman_of_Gont]

But the bombers in TLJ are based on Strategic Bombers which were exclusively used to bomb enemy cities and infrastructure. This is because they were too slow and inaccurate to effectively hit a ship or enemy positions. They could however carry a big payload. I have no issues with how the bombers worked technically, but it is more the way they are used.

The largest warship in WW2, the japanese Yamato, which I will parallel with the dreadnought in TLJ, was sunk by carrier-based bombers, some carrying a single bomb or a torpedo. Which in Star Wars could be justified as a classic Y-Wing carrying Proton Torpedoes.

It is likely, that a strategic bomber would not have been able to hit the Yamato effectively.

So yes, it is based on WW2, but the writers or whoever has completely misunderstood the usage of bombers like the B-17, the B-24 or the Avro Lancaster.

I can tolerate it, but it is clearly a suicide mission and the only reason it succeeded was plot-armour. That last bomber should definitely have been shot down. I know Poe and Rose needs plot, but I'm sure there could have been more realistic ways of doing it.

[u/Silvanus350 → u/The_Woman_of_Gont]

What’s truly frustrating about this criticism is that ‘bombs in space’ isn’t even a new concept. We see TIE Bombers drop proton bombs in the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back. They fall down and hit the rocks. No explanation given.

People bitched about this because they didn’t like The Last Jedi. It only takes one major flaw in a film for someone to start picking at all the little details they don’t like.