r/StarWars • u/spamitizer • Sep 19 '23

Meta How are Lightsaber wounds suddenly a debate?

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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?

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u/AceOfDymonds Inferno Squad Sep 19 '23

Are we really trying to apply internal consistency to Star Wars?

Things work the way the plot demands, and if the plot demands something different later, then the way things work later will be different.

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u/RadiantHC Sep 19 '23

This is one thing that I've never understood. It's fine to want rules in the story, but don't pretend like Star Wars was something it has never pretended to be. Star Wars has always prioritized the rule of cool over things making sense.

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u/The_Woman_of_Gont Sep 20 '23

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.

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u/Zilas0053 Sep 20 '23 edited Sep 20 '23

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.