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This reminds me of all I could think about watching the new star wars films. Why don’t all the storm troopers get to have the shiny mirrored suits. Those pesky

This reminds me of all I could think about watching the new star wars films. Why don’t all the storm troopers get to have the shiny mirrored suits. Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. check mate empire.

taneq 9y ago
The thing that gets me is they have holographic displays but they can't figure out that it's a bad idea putting the pilot of a military ship right at the front with their head sticking out.
- codeulike 9y ago
  Or they can build robots that are clearly sentient but they don't bother giving them a voice.
  - azeotropic 9y ago
    Do you ever downvote comments or collapse threads? Maybe R2 units are just constantly incoherent, off-topic, or abusive.
  - 220V_USKettle 9y ago
    In fairness, we have no idea what the IP licensing schemes are like for text-to-speech technology in that galaxy.
  - taneq 9y ago
    Actually the treatment of sentient droids in those movies is one of the sour points for me, rewatching it now. Somehow it's OK to just wipe a droid's memories, or dismantle it, when it's just as much a 'person' as any of the organic characters. Blah.
    - codeulike 9y ago
      In Sci-Fi terms the Star Wars approach to AI is nonsensical. You have sentient droids that are treated as possesions/slaves/butlers but there's no AI except for the droids, no spaceships that fly themselves or superintelligent AI minds or anything. And the aforementioned lack of voice for some droids. But in cinematic terms the R2D2/C3PO double-act does make for some funny exchanges, so I guess that's what they were going for. So its kindof tropes first, world-building afterwards as an afterthought.
    - lawlessone 9y ago
      > it's just as much a 'person' as any of the organic characters. The organic ones aren't treated that well either.
    - cicero 9y ago
      The novelization of the first Star Wars movie alluded to controversies over "droid rights", but that was a theme that never developed as the series progressed.
- pnutjam 9y ago
  Dude, this was "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Obviously we've gotten smarter.
Osmium 9y ago
> Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. They're not meant to be lasers in Star Wars (: They're packets of ionized gas (a gas Lando and friends mine at Cloud City).
- mrighele 9y ago
  In the movies I never heard them being called laser blasters but only blasters (and in fact they don't behave as laser at all), though almost everybody I know consider them laser weapons. I don't know if this is a general issue or simply due to the fact that in my country "lightsabers" were translated as "laser swords". There are lasers in fact , but are less common and bigger weapons. Death Star's weapon is the prime example of course, but there are also others (right now I remember a laser weapon looking like a rhasadar being used by the rebels during the battle of Hoth).
rasz 9y ago
This bothered you? and not WWII style bombing run using inexplicably slow and unmaneuverable crafts? or space ships slowing down after fuel runs out?!?!?! :o how about small unmanned shuttle hitting lightspeed into the destroyer? too obvious I guess.
- Retric 9y ago
  The ship might not be slowing down, every ship in both fleets is accelerating so you are in an accelerating reference frame. Stop accelerating and you will not keep up. A larger issue is the empire has light speed travel so they can easily get on the other side.
  - adrianN 9y ago
    The larger issue is that you can somehow kill an entire fleet by sacrificing a single ship and yet nobody had the idea to build hyperdrive torpedos.
    - Retric 9y ago
      Depends on relative costs of an engine and how random the destruction. I think the bigger issue is simply how close the ships where to each other. If that's standard then hyperdrive weapons are a big deal, if it's a mistake then at best you take down a ship some % of the time.
      - some_random 9y ago
        Ships in SW have pretty regularly gotten close to each other, definitely closer than they were in that scene. Not to mention the fact that either Death Star could have been destroyed by a single x-wing jumping into it.
    - thawkins 9y ago
      Yep KKW, kinetic kill weapons, basicaly large cannon balls moving at close to light speed. What about the devastation a couple of buckets of playpen sand would cause when accelerated to relativistic speeds, hypervelocity buckshot gun..
flippyhead 9y ago
Mostly I hate how they act like children.
- pault 9y ago
  The Cohen Brothers' adaptation didn't perform well in focus groups.
krapp 9y ago
>Why don’t all the storm troopers get to have the shiny mirrored suits. Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. check mate empire. Firstly, it would look ridiculous, and they would no longer seem menacing. Second, and most important, so Phasma's toys sell better. If you want a canon-consistent reason, umm... because most stormtroopers are grunts and the Empire doesn't really care about them.
- ashelmire 9y ago
  >Firstly, it would look ridiculous, and they would no longer seem menacing. Cylons beg to disagree.
  - krapp 9y ago
    The original cylons looked pretty daft. The updated non-human versions were a lot less shiny, though.
overcast 9y ago
They are not lasers, they are blaster bolts of plasma. Not a beam of light, but rather individual shots of super heated gas.
- nugi 9y ago
  So carbon ablation foam armor then. Easy as toast.

taneq 9y ago

The thing that gets me is they have holographic displays but they can't figure out that it's a bad idea putting the pilot of a military ship right at the front with their head sticking out.

codeulike 9y ago
Or they can build robots that are clearly sentient but they don't bother giving them a voice.
- azeotropic 9y ago
  Do you ever downvote comments or collapse threads? Maybe R2 units are just constantly incoherent, off-topic, or abusive.
- 220V_USKettle 9y ago
  In fairness, we have no idea what the IP licensing schemes are like for text-to-speech technology in that galaxy.
- taneq 9y ago
  Actually the treatment of sentient droids in those movies is one of the sour points for me, rewatching it now. Somehow it's OK to just wipe a droid's memories, or dismantle it, when it's just as much a 'person' as any of the organic characters. Blah.
  - codeulike 9y ago
    In Sci-Fi terms the Star Wars approach to AI is nonsensical. You have sentient droids that are treated as possesions/slaves/butlers but there's no AI except for the droids, no spaceships that fly themselves or superintelligent AI minds or anything. And the aforementioned lack of voice for some droids. But in cinematic terms the R2D2/C3PO double-act does make for some funny exchanges, so I guess that's what they were going for. So its kindof tropes first, world-building afterwards as an afterthought.
  - lawlessone 9y ago
    > it's just as much a 'person' as any of the organic characters. The organic ones aren't treated that well either.
  - cicero 9y ago
    The novelization of the first Star Wars movie alluded to controversies over "droid rights", but that was a theme that never developed as the series progressed.
pnutjam 9y ago
Dude, this was "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Obviously we've gotten smarter.

Osmium 9y ago

> Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. They're not meant to be lasers in Star Wars (: They're packets of ionized gas (a gas Lando and friends mine at Cloud City).

mrighele 9y ago
In the movies I never heard them being called laser blasters but only blasters (and in fact they don't behave as laser at all), though almost everybody I know consider them laser weapons. I don't know if this is a general issue or simply due to the fact that in my country "lightsabers" were translated as "laser swords". There are lasers in fact , but are less common and bigger weapons. Death Star's weapon is the prime example of course, but there are also others (right now I remember a laser weapon looking like a rhasadar being used by the rebels during the battle of Hoth).

rasz 9y ago

This bothered you? and not WWII style bombing run using inexplicably slow and unmaneuverable crafts? or space ships slowing down after fuel runs out?!?!?! :o how about small unmanned shuttle hitting lightspeed into the destroyer? too obvious I guess.

Retric 9y ago
The ship might not be slowing down, every ship in both fleets is accelerating so you are in an accelerating reference frame. Stop accelerating and you will not keep up. A larger issue is the empire has light speed travel so they can easily get on the other side.
- adrianN 9y ago
  The larger issue is that you can somehow kill an entire fleet by sacrificing a single ship and yet nobody had the idea to build hyperdrive torpedos.
  - Retric 9y ago
    Depends on relative costs of an engine and how random the destruction. I think the bigger issue is simply how close the ships where to each other. If that's standard then hyperdrive weapons are a big deal, if it's a mistake then at best you take down a ship some % of the time.
    - some_random 9y ago
      Ships in SW have pretty regularly gotten close to each other, definitely closer than they were in that scene. Not to mention the fact that either Death Star could have been destroyed by a single x-wing jumping into it.
  - thawkins 9y ago
    Yep KKW, kinetic kill weapons, basicaly large cannon balls moving at close to light speed. What about the devastation a couple of buckets of playpen sand would cause when accelerated to relativistic speeds, hypervelocity buckshot gun..

flippyhead 9y ago

Mostly I hate how they act like children.

pault 9y ago
The Cohen Brothers' adaptation didn't perform well in focus groups.

krapp 9y ago

>Why don’t all the storm troopers get to have the shiny mirrored suits. Those pesky rebels and their lasers blasters would just bounce off. check mate empire. Firstly, it would look ridiculous, and they would no longer seem menacing. Second, and most important, so Phasma's toys sell better. If you want a canon-consistent reason, umm... because most stormtroopers are grunts and the Empire doesn't really care about them.

ashelmire 9y ago
>Firstly, it would look ridiculous, and they would no longer seem menacing. Cylons beg to disagree.
- krapp 9y ago
  The original cylons looked pretty daft. The updated non-human versions were a lot less shiny, though.

overcast 9y ago

They are not lasers, they are blaster bolts of plasma. Not a beam of light, but rather individual shots of super heated gas.

nugi 9y ago
So carbon ablation foam armor then. Easy as toast.