I don't recall Star Wars doing anything with RKVs or tricky orbital weapons. Most of the media I've seen they stick with lasers and missiles. The series really does run on WWII tropes; Ships have to close to visual range to fight, fighters handle as though there was an atmosphere. Naval guns are big installations on the surface of the ships, or even in shielded bays along the side of the ships and they have actual gunners and support staff instead of computerized gun laying and aiming. Nothing moves very fast relative to anything else. No one is doing gun runs at 40,000kph relative to the target ship.
I agree the "Stern chase in space" plot was pretty weak. Personally I would have found another way to build tension in the story. It also made the conflict look very very small; The fate of the galaxy hangs on this tiny handful of ships? Okay whatever.
This is the trope Johnson was going for but I think even for Star Wars it was too much "Space is an ocean" to really work. In all prior media we're used to capital ships and even fighters jumping in to and out of the area unopposed. The old EU stuff even created interdictor ships that would pull anything in the area out of hyperspace because the unlimited mobility of hyperdrive equipped ships created so many narrative issues.
Yeah see, if they went to hyperspace the whole damn ship (or at least a very large portion of it) would have just been deleted from existence. I'm not sure if A-Wings have independent hyperdrives though, but I know X-wings do for sure (i.e. Luke traveling everywhere solo)
also lmao watching that scene today was unintentionally hilarious in so many ways, the little fireball on the bridge, the fact that literally destroying just the bridge instantly kills the entire ship (imperial design continues to be flawless), and then the special effects when it hits the death star
https://www.starwars.com/video/the-destruction-of-the-executor
I don't recall Star Wars doing anything with RKVs or tricky orbital weapons. Most of the media I've seen they stick with lasers and missiles. The series really does run on WWII tropes; Ships have to close to visual range to fight, fighters handle as though there was an atmosphere. Naval guns are big installations on the surface of the ships, or even in shielded bays along the side of the ships and they have actual gunners and support staff instead of computerized gun laying and aiming. Nothing moves very fast relative to anything else. No one is doing gun runs at 40,000kph relative to the target ship.
I agree the "Stern chase in space" plot was pretty weak. Personally I would have found another way to build tension in the story. It also made the conflict look very very small; The fate of the galaxy hangs on this tiny handful of ships? Okay whatever.
This is the trope Johnson was going for but I think even for Star Wars it was too much "Space is an ocean" to really work. In all prior media we're used to capital ships and even fighters jumping in to and out of the area unopposed. The old EU stuff even created interdictor ships that would pull anything in the area out of hyperspace because the unlimited mobility of hyperdrive equipped ships created so many narrative issues.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SternChase
Yeah see, if they went to hyperspace the whole damn ship (or at least a very large portion of it) would have just been deleted from existence. I'm not sure if A-Wings have independent hyperdrives though, but I know X-wings do for sure (i.e. Luke traveling everywhere solo)
also lmao watching that scene today was unintentionally hilarious in so many ways, the little fireball on the bridge, the fact that literally destroying just the bridge instantly kills the entire ship (imperial design continues to be flawless), and then the special effects when it hits the death star