Bad Design in Star Wars

http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/08/bad-designs-in-star-wars.php

by fogus • 17 years ago

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movix• 17 years ago

Is this serious? It's a movie - you know 'make believe'

As technology, yes of course there are loads of flaws, Dr. Who's Darleks must surely be the classic though. As far as movie design and art direction goes, John Barry the Production Designer spawned an entire new genre of sci-fi style.

roundsquare• 17 years ago

And you've never had fun poking holes in movies?

unalone• 17 years ago

In Star Wars' defense, it did happen a Long Time Ago.

kmcgivney• 17 years ago

How about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?

modoc4• 17 years ago

Eh, no worse than the Russian Mi-24 which had a heavily armored cockpit, but the tail could be easily damaged by small arms.

People will find a way, intentionally or not, around your defensive design. True for code and military engineering alike.

pavel_lishin2• 17 years ago

At least they learned from the heavily armored helicopter whose gigantic windshield was made of non-bulletproof glass.

barrkel• 17 years ago

And what are aerial intercept fighters doing with harpoons?

modoc4• 17 years ago

Looking for air whales.

roryokane• 17 years ago

I think they called them tow cables. Presumably, if one fighter was shot down, another could tow it back to base behind it.

pcarmichael• 17 years ago

If you like this, you'll appreciate "The Inbox of Nardo Pace, The Empire's Worst Engineer."

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design-empire.php

(That may not be the original link, but it was the first result on google.)

mynameishere• 17 years ago

This is getting silly, but it reminds me of,

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/02cobra.html

aik• 17 years ago

Hilarious. Valid points. I'm sure he could go on and mention another 100 or even 1000 things. I love Star Wars still.

pfedor• 17 years ago

It is not true that R2-D2 can't handle stairs. You can see him walk the stairs in Episode 2.

jackchristopher• 17 years ago

And yet this is realistic. Wouldn't you expect a big, clumsy organization like the Empire to be inept at design? They should've outsourced. It's inefficiencies like this that keep people like Boba Fett employed.

pavel_lishin2• 17 years ago

The building's maintenance department still hasn't fixed one of our office doors. The springs are broken, and it's a heavy glass door. It could break your hand or brain you pretty good if you're not aware that the spring is malfunctioning. It's been two months. And we're not even a gigantic corporation.

RyanMcGreal• 17 years ago

They should've outsourced.

How do you know they didn't? Predatory consultants and contractors absolutely flourish by hanging off the underbellies of large institutions. Somewhere in the Empire, some corporation is billing $450 per replacement blaster trigger.

keltecp11• 17 years ago

This was fantastic. Very well done and hysterical.

tome• 17 years ago

Flagged. It's humourous, but there's no real intelligence or insight here worthy of Hacker News.

liquidben• 17 years ago

How weird is it that I just read this webcomic from 2003 yesterday. And it did the same joke http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/177.html

figital• 17 years ago

Ewoks are cheap Wookies: http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=...

tetha• 17 years ago

regarding C3-PO: Remember that Anaking skywalker built this guy when he was around 12. Imo it is just realistic that C3-PO is no super-agile-perfectly-engineered battle robot, but a bit quirky

Bad Design in Star Wars

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