Return of the Jedo Deathstar Question.

[Vanyel]

Return of the Jedi Deathstar Question.

Not about the Deathstar itself, but when they flew into it there were twist turn bobbing and weaving to reach the reactor. But to leave it just too the straight corridor out. Why didn't the just go in that way?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

They left through the same shaft they came in, we just didn't see most of the journey on the way out. All the same twists and turns were there in reverse, we just didn't see it.

 

[Candlelight]

Plus according to the display aboard the rebel flagship before the battle there were four (?) shafts heading for the main reactor. Conceivable they took another one on the way out, which had less obstacles.

 

[Lindley]

If they took the same shaft out, then it's a good thing they didn't have any backup following them at a distance....

 

[ToddKent]

It might have been faster to leave through a different route rather than turn around and leave the way they came. It was a tight space. Image driving an RV down a circular driveway. It's easier to keep going forward and leave that way rather than trying to turn around.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Bloody Empire, it's their own fault for building the Death Star with reactors that can even be reached via fighters in the first place. And such a huge space surrounding said reactors!

As for why the rebels got in and out the way they did: because it looked good in the film, of course.

 

[davejames]

Considering the many GIANT gaps we see in the under-construction Second Death Star, it always seemed weird to me that the Falcon didn't simply fly in through one of those.

Seems like it would be a much shorter trip to the Main Reactor. Hell, considering how much weaker those areas probably were, you could probably just launch a couple missles inside and cripple the entire structure instantly.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I'm pretty sure they went out the same way they came in. As Wedge and Lando take their shots, they swing their ships around the reactor and pass the camera, which is in the same position they came from.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Plus according to the display aboard the rebel flagship before the battle there were four (?) shafts heading for the main reactor. Conceivable they took another one on the way out, which had less obstacles.

If they took the same shaft out, then it's a good thing they didn't have any backup following them at a distance....

They didn't have any backup following them because the pursuing TIE fighters destroyed one of their trailing X-Wing escorts, and because Lando ordered the leading and trailing escorts to split up and head back to the surface as a decoy for some of the TIE fighters. Only the Falcon and Wedge's X-Wing continued on toward the main reactor with a couple TIEs following.

They left through the same shaft that they entered because:

a) They entered with the Alliance fleet behind them (the fleet facing away from the Death Star after executing a full turn to avoid the shields) and exited with the fleet directly in front of them and pulling away from the Death Star.

b) The scenery of the shaft was exactly the same at the entry and exit points on both ends (the holomap of the Death Star suggests the shafts were somewhat different shapes, and I doubt even the scaffolding around their entrances would be the same).





c) They executed a full turn around the main reactor to get back out.

d) The "power regulator on the North Tower" that Wedge blew up has a buttress on the bottom connecting it to the main reactor. The similar thingamabob on the opposite side does not connect to the main reactor on the bottom. They enter with the power regulator on their right side and exit with it on their left (but still on the right from the audience's reversed POV).



[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwz_fZPt6Ic[/yt]

 

[Chaos Descending]

Yeah judging from that clip, I think the OP is misremembering the scene.

The Falcon has a virtually straight shot to the reactor on the way in, only one "turn" and it was only a small turn. Then they came right back out the same way, still basically a straight shot. There was no "twist turn bobbing and weaving to reach the reactor".

Perhaps the OP is confusing some of the scene cuts in which the camera is swinging around the Falcon from front to back, which makes it look like they are making some kind of turn?

 

[Vanyel]

Really I'm looking at the quick duck the Falcon has to make, the one where it lost its dish. Otherwise 3 turns, one of those turns being relatively sharp.

 

[Broccoli]

Jedo?

 

[Vanyel]

Jedo?

Typi...I mean "typo"

 

[Set Harth]

Anyone ever try the equivalent mission "Strike at the Core" in the Rogue Leader game? What a pain in the ass. The movie characters make it look so easy...

 

[Trekker4747]

Re: Return of the Jedi Deathstar Question.

Not about the Deathstar itself, but when they flew into it there were twist turn bobbing and weaving to reach the reactor. But to leave it just too the straight corridor out. Why didn't the just go in that way?

I suspect when they were going in they did it through the trench in order to take advantage of a "blind spot" in the DS's sensors. When they left there was no need for that as it was time to just get the hell out of there as soon as possible.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Return of the Jedi Deathstar Thingamabob.

Of course, when we see the diagram of the four routes going straight to the middle of the DeathStar, it doesn't show that there is a fork in the road half way there, which we do see during the actual assault. Not a big deal. I just wondered if anyone else noticed that.

 

[Silvercrest]

New construction?

 

[Chaos Descending]

Really I'm looking at the quick duck the Falcon has to make, the one where it lost its dish. Otherwise 3 turns, one of those turns being relatively sharp.

Watching the video AGAIN, I see one turn on the way in (the "fork"), which is not at all that sharp, and no other turns.

Then they blow the reactor, make a U-Turn and head straight out.

That "quick duck" is not a turn, it's just that the shaft narrows and widens as they go.

There are two points on the way in where the camera swings from looking at the Falcon head on to swinging around the side to look at it from behind. It sorta looks like a turn, but it's not. It's just a camera swing.