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Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there-are-so-many dept.

Ant writes "John Scalzi's AMC blog shows a short guide to the most epic FAILs in Star Wars design — 'I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten ...'"

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  1. Only 10? by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is possible to enumerate more than 100 "flaws" on Star Wars Universe, but I need to agree with mosty of hollywood "Space Operas" do not attempt to even be plausible, what matters is just being "cool" for a number of spectators unaware of any real science or logic.


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    Eh possivel enumerar mais do que 100 "falhas", no universo de Guerra nas Estrelas, mas eu tenho que concordar que a maior parte das "Operas espaciais" de Hollywood nao tentam sequer serem plausiveis, o que importa eh apenas serem "cool" para um numero de espectadores que desconhecem qualquer ciencia real ou logica.

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  2. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist by Desler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did someone never watch Return of the Jedi? They were knocked over by small twigs and tiny stones with that armor on.

  3. Re:Re-cutting by Fujisawa+Sensei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, because during the 80's he was doing such a good job with the Star Wars IP...

    What do you mean 80s? He jumped off that cliff in 1979.

    Oops, that should have been 1978.

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