Surrounded by all of that magic and he still thought the 97 special edition cuts were better… 😑
Is there a word for shuddering and vomiting at the same time?
Shuvomit?
Shuke?
Seems like there should be a German portmanteau for it…
Bebenkotzen
Ugh
I got the VHS box set for my birthday from my mom and thought "this is going to be great "…damn it…
Still have them…
Isn’t this place where David Lynch got a massive migraine? He was in consideration to direct Jedi on the merit on The Elephant Man, but took himself out on the day of that visit to Lucasfilm.
Inexplicably by that standard, then he signed on to direct Dune for Dino De Laurentis, and has regretted that decision to this day, refuses to speak of his experience.
The angle makes it look like he’s got a huge dump truck
Shame that the B-wing is mostly cut out of the shot, the details look really cool. Love that there is a whole rack of TIEs.
My man!
I never understood why these things are asymmetrical, aside from the rule of cool of course.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above. Pretty sure either way would be an improvement, if only to make it so the pilot is centered.
Is there any lore reason for this?
Disclaimer: Deep background reasons are usually written or fleshed out after the prop has been made.
There is just no way this provides any kind of advantage or is necessitated by some design constraint. In fact, they could just rotate the cockpit gondola until the body is underneath or above.
The did! The ship’s cockpit is in a rotating gyro mount. When the B-wings started their attack in ROTJ the cockpits were positioned on top of the ship.
The shorter s-foil wings stay flat on the body while not in attack mode and then fold into the cross shape for combat. The entire logic behind folding s-foil wings has been debated to death by nerds since the existence of X-Wings, but let’s just assume there is a rational reason for the folding and unfolding. With the wings folded flat, there isn’t a great spot to put the cockpit on the longer portion, and then the engines and big cooling system being near the center makes sense to me.
The Star Wars Essential Guide To Vehicles And Vessels does say that B-Wings are notoriously difficult to pilot, but that pilots who got good with them became very attached. The book also says that the gyro system for the cockpit allows the ship to do a lot of crazy maneuvers with it rotating around while not putting physical strain on the pilots, since the cockpit stays in place.
One thing to notice about the upper B-wing is the iconic orange circles on the wings. The only B-wings to appear in RotJ actually don’t have these markings, and the scenes involving the prop with the orange circles must have been scrapped due to the difficulty in capturing the thin wings against a blue screen.
Who is the fuzzy guy with the spear down in the front by the AT-AT?
I believe that is a concept for a gorax, a species that lived on Endor’s moon and preyed on ewoks.
