Episode One: Going through the planet core would screw the core up, right?

[Darkness]

Moved to the movie forum.

 

[takyris]

I'd love to see an explanation for lightsabers involving wave mechanics and harmonic resonance and such, and have it turn out that when somebody turns on his lightsaber, it creates the usual three-ish-foot-long saber that terminates, and then, several light years away, another three-ish-foot-long saber-section, due to the same harmonic resonance. There'd be these planets far away from everyone else who would constantly complain about random bars of energy appearing from nowhere and slicing through things.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I had already braced myself for Jar-Jar so the thing that really botherd me was how bad Yoda looked compared to II and III. He looked so rubbery and expressionless in Ep 1. Did they use a puppet instead of CG?

Traditional Yoda in EpI, CGI in 2 and 3. The techniques weren't quite ready yet.

 

[Henry]

THANK GOD the creature does not speak at all in Ep 3.

Actually, he does!

As I pointed out in another thread, his one speaking line could be construed as Lucas' public veiled apology for the creature's very existance:

He says, "excuse me." in the sequence when they welcome back Chacellor Palaptine.

 

[Psion]

What the gungans call the "planet core" doesn't necessarily have to technically be the planet core.

What are you talking about? After the Jedi land on Naboo, they zip off to Tatooine. I have no recollection of the events of which you speak.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Traditional Yoda in EpI, CGI in 2 and 3. The techniques weren't quite ready yet.

Actually, there is some CGI Yoda in tPM. Its one of the last scenes where you see a wide shot of Yoda telling Obi-Wan that Anakin is to be trained. That was the test CGI to prove to Lucas they could pull it off.

 

[Umbran]

I'd love to see an explanation for lightsabers involving wave mechanics and harmonic resonance and such, and have it turn out that when somebody turns on his lightsaber, it creates the usual three-ish-foot-long saber that terminates, and then, several light years away, another three-ish-foot-long saber-section, due to the same harmonic resonance.

Luckily, that sort of thing is prevented by simple energy concerns - sure, a few years later a few light years away you might have that energy bar - if the batteries had enough energy to project to such a distance. Even with constructive interference, you have issues of dissipation over long distances.

 

[TanisFrey]

Naboo we have no idea, might have an Earthlike variation. Endor might have some variations, but Tatooine, Hoth, Dagobah, Coruscant (one environment: urban renewal), Yavin IV, all have the same environment. Geonosis or whatever the planet is in Ep. II, who knows.

Any one whom rembers the 2 Ewok TV movies should rember that they visit the mountains and desert reagion of Endor

 

[ddvmor]

I have no idea how lightsabers supposedly work, but I would think the blade is not just "light". I would guess it's some sort of superheated plasma contained in a magnetic field. (Sorta like a neon tube without the tube)

Try this. The 'Using your Lightsaber around the home' section is particularly good.

 

[Orius]

From starwars.com:

Naboo is a geologically unique world. It lacks a molten core, indicative of an ancient world. The planet is a conglomerate of large rocky bodies permeated by countless caves and tunnel networks. This causes numerous swampy lakes on the surface, which lead deeper into the planet's structure. The native Gungans have developed transports that exploit these cave networks, but even these hardy explorers pause at venturing too deep into the planet core, for it is infested with gargantuan sea beasts with ravenous appetites.

Maybe it doesn't make sense, but so what? This is Star Wars, not Traveller.

Sheesh!