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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7547103" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I disagree. First of all, any machinery needs ventilation, so there’s nothing particularly glaring about that being the death star’s weakness. More importantly, it was symbolic of the empire’s hubris, and the film’s greater themes of individualism vs collectivism and faith vs technology. The Empire was a massive military machine with absolute trust in the superiority of their tech. The unguarded hole just big enough for an individual fighter to exploit to bring the whole thing down represents the inability for such systems of power to recognize individuals and take their power seriously. The rebellion is a small, loose affiliation of individuals, who put their trust in The Force. They’re able to defeat the empire not in spite of being the underdog, but because of it. And they are only successful once Luke rejects the technology completely and acts on faith.Making the death star’s weakness an intentional act of sabotage may connect it to the characters, but at the cost of weakening the themes of the original film. It changes the empire’s Achilles heel from a flaw of their own creation, born of their nature as a massive system, into a product of the rebellion, and in so doing  muddies the message of the story.</blockquote>