I’m pretty sure you can find references to it in the old books which used to be canon but I don’t remember the details or logic of why it wasn’t used.
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My guess is it could be considered a war crime, unsporting in war, so unlikely to work it’s basically a Hail Mary, and/or having the right conditions to pull it off is a rarity. Also both objects were capital ships so somewhat similar in mass. The Death Star is MUCH bigger than a Star Destroyer. It might take something much larger to penetrate the Death Star defenses. We do know that hyperdrives have proximity shutdown functions which were disabled in the movie. I think if you can suspend belief that the Empire remnants had hundreds of fully staffed Star Destroyers hidden away then the Holdo Manuever (apparently what it’s called) is acceptable.
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Yep. Hyperspace ramming is something that wouldn’t bother me if it wasn’t layered on top of a giant dung heap of stupid shit. Like the OJ Bronco chase in space, with ships falling backwards when they run out of fuel.
It was the least of that trilogy’s problems. I will admit I’ve only seen each movie once.
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“Somehow Palpatine returned” says it all.
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What. The. Fuck. Are. They. Doing. With. Gemma?
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Observations and a question:
Mark and Gemma’s meet-cute was at a blood donation center run by Lumon, suggesting they may have been targeted by the company.
But it gets worse. In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, the creepy doctor in love with innie Gemma was at the fertility clinic that she and Mark visited in the flash back. He did a double-take on her as they walked in.
I had always thought that Mark was driving the night of the accident that “killed” Gemma. In S1 E1 he nearly runs over Helena in the parking lot and she tells him to “watch the icy road”. Am I making this up, or did they switch that up on us?
That was way more trippy than even your standard Severance ep
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More trippy and, astonishingly, at the same time more sinister.
The season finale cliffhanger is shaping up to be an intergalactic cockpunch.
I can’t believe I slept on Skeleton Crew until now. Just finished it. What a wonderful little show.
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NVM, I was thinking of Skeleton Crew the old King book of stories.
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I liked it. A show meant for kids, of course, but related and relatable enough for adult Star Wars fans.
I liked it – but the Star Wars connection felt too tenuous, like they took a generic story and just tagged SW on the end. (So much recent stuff fell too much into fan service; this one felt like it went too far the other way.)
Want.
Also want.
Does Severance have a planned end, like Battlestar did?
No idea. They are building to “Cold Harbor” whatever that is, which seems like some kind of end. The season finale is called “Cold Harbor” and Ben Stiller returns to the directing chair for that one, so it’s important.
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Speaking of directing. the director of the last episode was a first-timer. Jessica Lee Gagné is the director of photography for many of the episodes, and never envisaged taking the director’s job for anything.
But the episode was so heavily reliant on the transitions from past to present and from room to room, which falls heavily on the DP, that she decided that she wanted to direct the whole thing and the producers agreed.
She absolutely nailed it.
The direct connection to Rogue One is now overt.
There is nothing I have seen/heard that suggests there is anything bad about S2. But Disney’s original plan was to take about 4 or 5 seasons to connect to Rogue One, but now they’re speed-running through it in one season that is being dropped in large chunks.
If this was a different show, that would suggest very little faith in the product from the studio.
Very little faith that it’ll make money, anyway. The first season was a smash with critics but didn’t get that many eyeballs.