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How could it have been different? Stormtrooper 02/14/15 (Sat) 03:51:21 No.589

A random idea came to me today: Why bother with Endor or the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi? Cutting them out entirely and moving the shield generator onto the Death Star itself would have made the story considerably more logical and tighter.

Luke (and possibly a strike team?) goes on a covert mission to sneak into the Death Star itself to disable the shield, where he is discovered (or surrenders to buy time for the rest of the team?) and brought before the Emperor, whose throne is above the shield generator. Duel happens as usual, Emperor is thrown down a shaft to destroy the shield generator, bringing it down allowing the fighters (led by Han with Lando?) to bring down the Death Star. Luke (and team?) evacuates with Vader's body as the fighter squad goes in and takes down the Death Star.

1. Removing the extra step of a separate shield generator on Endor allows the main characters to be more together and involved. Lando was nice, but it still felt a bit weird to have a relative newcomer in that role alone.
2. Putting the shield generator within the Death Star itself just feels like it makes more sense and safer from an in-universe perspective.
3. Putting the shield generator within the Death Star and having it brought down along with the Emperor gives the duel aboard it more meaning by making the Emperor more of a load-bearing boss. Sure, the load-bearing boss is something of a cliche, but Star Wars was built on tropes.
4. No Ewok controversy.

Just some thoughts. Feel free to criticize or give your own.

Stormtrooper 02/14/15 (Sat) 05:05:58 No.590

the rebels couldn't sneak onto the death star, vader knew it was them you dunce. luke would be captured and sent straight to the emperor while leia, han & co. would be executed on the spot.

Stormtrooper 02/14/15 (Sat) 05:09:36 No.591

Personally I would have preferred they didn't have a second Death Star. It felt a little too derivative of ANH. Maybe instead have Luke be called to Imperial Centre to fight Vader, and the gang join him to help out.

Stormtrooper 02/14/15 (Sat) 09:01:53 No.592

>>589
The way shield generators work in Star Wars seems a bit confusing, the one on Hoth was strong enough to withstand any bombardment, how does that work for ships etc?

Anyway Lucas always wanted to do something Vietnam war themed, at one point he was lined up to direct Apocalypse Now and the original Star Wars script had the wookies from a forest planet helping them fight the Death Star.

The Ewoks and forrest planet were about a theme of primitives vs technology, it wasn't about the details of it.

Stormtrooper 03/11/15 (Wed) 01:50:33 No.941

>>589
The Deathstar 2 did have an internal shield-generator if I'm not mistaken.
The shield on the moon of endor is essentially a construction-shield untill the internal shield generator is finished. (why waste your own power on a shield generator when you can have one nearby on the moon?)

also; I doubt the *splat* of the emperor would've done much damage to the shield-generator, not to mention that the energy-burst that resulted from his death was purely force-based and it did no damage.

keep Ewok controversie because they're still tons better than the friggin' gungans.

also; I think the Hoth comment of "it is strong enough to withstand any bombardment." is basically hyperbaly. I suppose bombarding the shield with a star destroyer would work, but they're not considering that as a viable strategy, because those things are bloody expensive.

Stormtrooper 03/11/15 (Wed) 04:51:44 No.943

you have to remember that shielding and lasers n shit all revolve around the transference of energy

so yeah, the shields from the generator on hoth could withstand an orbital bombardment unless they had jihadi star destroyers. but this is why they had a ground assault, to destroy said shield generators. fortunately the rebels had their ion cannon as backup and by the time the generator was down most of them had dipped.

not to mention, they had just gotten the superlaser up and running by the time of the battle, so i seriously doubt shielding was a primary task at that point when they had the base on on the moon.

Stormtrooper 03/11/15 (Wed) 16:08:12 No.952

>>943
Ion Cannon is overpowered.

If every planet had one of those they'd rek any invasion force.