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Kenobi update:
Still banger. Plot holes? Yes! Always! This is Star Wars. But they made up for it with... really surprisingly good tension.
Spoilers for most recent episode:
SpoilerThis undersea base place has been featured before in one of those video games that I've never played. You play as a grown-up(ish) Jedi Youngling, and eventually come here because [reasons, I'm sure]. You happen to encounter none other than Darth Scudding Vader, whose levels consists entirely of fleeing for your sorry lives. In order to escape, you blow a hole in the walls far beneath the surface, and it takes all of Vader's concentration to hold it back with the force.
Here's a video by Austin from Game Theory detailing the science of that. That's not my point today.
My point is that late into the episode, a team of Stormtroopers is gunning down Obi-Wan Kenobi, giving us some epic blaster/lightsaber action. However, at one point, Obi-Wan deflects a shot into window pane. Cracks begin to spread and water starts to leak in. He has to use the force to hold it back, then releases it on the Stormtroopers and makes his daring escape.
Here's the thing: It's plot-hole enough that these incredibly crucial windows would be weak to even a single blaster shot. That's really not my point here. My point is that Stormtrooper blasters actually happen to be just about the weakest scudding blasters in all of Star Wars.
Their armor is designed to be blaster-resistant, but the only blasters they work against are their own. That means that Stormtrooper blasters are incredibly weak and pithy.
And a single shot from one of them broke these incredibly crucial water windows.
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I just thought it was funny.
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SpoilerWhat I wondered during the water window scene was where the heck Kenobi's water gear went
Like, did he just chuck it once he got in?
He had the mask that let him swim into the base, couldn't he just have gotten the others out of the way, strap the mask on, then let the window blow?
And yeah, I did think the fact that a blaster blew the windows was kinda funny.
Kindness, I very much agree that that scene was epic, though I personally think it would have been cooler if it had been pitch black for us. Like, we could see the stormtroopers before Kenobi sliced them up, but imagine:
A pitch black screen, the light from the ring around Leia only illuminating her. You can't see anything but her in the middle of the screen. Then, suddenly, a blue blur. No, not Sonic; Obi Wan Kenobi. In the light of his saber, we can also see the first of the stormtroopers, who is immediately slashed to bits. Then, darkness again. We hear--not see--the other stormtrooper demand that Obi Wan show himself, before the blur illuminates the death once more. Then, we see Obi Wan enter the lit-up-Leia area, free her, then go back into the darkness.
Basically the same, but less that we can see. I mean, if the stormtroopers were in complete darkness, shouldn't we have been too?
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