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movix
Is this serious? It's a movie - you know 'make believe'

As technology, yes of course there are loads of flaws, Dr. Who's Darleks must surely be the classic though. As far as movie design and art direction goes, John Barry the Production Designer spawned an entire new genre of sci-fi style.

roundsquare
And you've never had fun poking holes in movies?
unalone
In Star Wars' defense, it did happen a Long Time Ago.
billswift
Unfortunately, it wasn't far enough away.
kmcgivney
How about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?
modoc
Eh, no worse than the Russian Mi-24 which had a heavily armored cockpit, but the tail could be easily damaged by small arms.

People will find a way, intentionally or not, around your defensive design. True for code and military engineering alike.

pavel_lishin
At least they learned from the heavily armored helicopter whose gigantic windshield was made of non-bulletproof glass.
modoc
I was trying to find a reference for that! Any pointers?
sundeep
I believe he was referring to Rambo III. :)
modoc
There was a reference to the Russian helicopters windshields not being bulletproof in Afghanistan in a sci-fi or geek-y book I read a few years ago. I haven't seen Rambo III, so I know it's not that:) Possibly a Neal Stephenson book? Not sure. Also couldn't find any facts about it online.
barrkel
And what are aerial intercept fighters doing with harpoons?
roryokane
I think they called them tow cables. Presumably, if one fighter was shot down, another could tow it back to base behind it.
aik
Hilarious. Valid points. I'm sure he could go on and mention another 100 or even 1000 things. I love Star Wars still.
pfedor
It is not true that R2-D2 can't handle stairs. You can see him walk the stairs in Episode 2.
jackchristopher
And yet this is realistic. Wouldn't you expect a big, clumsy organization like the Empire to be inept at design? They should've outsourced. It's inefficiencies like this that keep people like Boba Fett employed.
pavel_lishin
The building's maintenance department still hasn't fixed one of our office doors. The springs are broken, and it's a heavy glass door. It could break your hand or brain you pretty good if you're not aware that the spring is malfunctioning. It's been two months. And we're not even a gigantic corporation.
RyanMcGreal
They should've outsourced.

How do you know they didn't? Predatory consultants and contractors absolutely flourish by hanging off the underbellies of large institutions. Somewhere in the Empire, some corporation is billing $450 per replacement blaster trigger.

keltecp11
This was fantastic. Very well done and hysterical.
tome
Flagged. It's humourous, but there's no real intelligence or insight here worthy of Hacker News.
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tetha
regarding C3-PO: Remember that Anaking skywalker built this guy when he was around 12. Imo it is just realistic that C3-PO is no super-agile-perfectly-engineered battle robot, but a bit quirky