Obi-Wan Kenobi (spoilers)

[Zardnaar]

Overall I liked the show. Probably slightly better than Solo not as good as Rebels, Mando's in S tier.

 

[Hussar]

2) The freighter taking more hits from a star destroyer than a capital ship can tank. I mean....please, at least try to sell it to me. Just give me a throw away line, "this freighter is heavily armored and packed with shields, but it still won't hold forever", something to make that remotely believalbe.

Weren't they trying to take the ship, rather than blow it out of space? As in Vader wanted Obi-Wan alive. I'm pretty sure they were firing to keep the pressure on, not to blow the ship up.

It's not like they could go anywhere, they had no hyperdrive and absolutely couldn't escape. So, why not just slap them around a bit until they surrender/their engines fail?

Granted, that doesn't explain why they didn't use a tractor beam... Do Star Destroyers have tractor beams? Has that ever been shown in the movies?

 

[Zardnaar]

Weren't they trying to take the ship, rather than blow it out of space? As in Vader wanted Obi-Wan alive. I'm pretty sure they were firing to keep the pressure on, not to blow the ship up.

It's not like they could go anywhere, they had no hyperdrive and absolutely couldn't escape. So, why not just slap them around a bit until they surrender/their engines fail?

Granted, that doesn't explain why they didn't use a tractor beam... Do Star Destroyers have tractor beams? Has that ever been shown in the movies?

ANH Tantive IV iirc.

 

[pukunui]

Granted, that doesn't explain why they didn't use a tractor beam... Do Star Destroyers have tractor beams? Has that ever been shown in the movies?

Possibly not.

ANH Tantive IV iirc.

Thanks to the wonders of Disney+, I just rewatched the opening of ANH. After the Tantive IV's engines are blown, it cuts to the people and droids on board listening to ominous metallic sounds. It then jumps back outside to show the Tantive IV holding still while the Star Destroy maneuvers over it into position to grab it with its docking clamps. So no, I don't think that particular Star Destroyer at least had a tractor beam.

Even if some do have them, I suspect they'd be much shorter range than the one/s on the Death Star.

 

[MarkB]

Possibly not.


Thanks to the wonders of Disney+, I just rewatched the opening of ANH. After the Tantive IV's engines are blown, it cuts to the people and droids on board listening to ominous metallic sounds. It then jumps back outside to show the Tantive IV holding still while the Star Destroy maneuvers over it into position to grab it with its docking clamps. So no, I don't think that particular Star Destroyer at least had a tractor beam.

Even if some do have them, I suspect they'd be much shorter range than the one/s on the Death Star.

The Empire Strikes Back seems to confirm that. Vader's super star destroyer does have a tractor beam, but it takes them ages to rig it, and they don't even try to use it until the Falcon is practically scraping their hull.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If you have flown a Tie Defender in the Tie Fighter game, the tractor beam is pretty short range. Well short of a capital ship's main guns. And Rebels made the Tie Defender canon.

 

[Bolares]

This is not true. There is no hate, anger or fear in killing the Sith, so no dark side. You can kill the enemy in the situation that Windu was in.

Are you telling me that there would be no hate, anger of fear in kenobi killing vader? All but the last fight between them were all about hate anger and fear.

 

[Rabulias]

Are you telling me that there would be no hate, anger of fear in kenobi killing vader? All but the last fight between them were all about hate anger and fear.

I would say that Obi-Wan was motivated more by his duty to defend the Republic in their previous fight. He literally warned Anakin about the high ground, still not wanting to kill his former padawan.

Killing Vader in this episode could have been seen as a mercy killing out of pity, seeing the pain and self-hatred that Vader has.

 

[Zaukrie]

Wow. My wife and I hated it. Also, you let Vader live? Someone actively hunting and killing innocent people? Why even bother fighting evil at all? Just let them live and let them be free to keep killing innocent people. Gollum was not actively hunting anyone. Not the same at all.

Guess I was right last week, Vader can be beaten, he's not invincible.... But I enjoyed being kicked for suggesting that.

 

[Maxperson]

Are you telling me that there would be no hate, anger of fear in kenobi killing vader? All but the last fight between them were all about hate anger and fear.

I didn't see any hate, anger or fear in Kenobi. Not in that last fight anyway. I saw love, sadness at the loss of his friend and disappointment. Kenobi had resolved his issues and gotten his powers back.