From: chris@132.236.236.49 (Christopher A. Wolf)
Subject: Re: why don't all you star wars fans get a life -- Some new ?'s
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In article <Bz7H3G.1Iq@mach1.wlu.ca> lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u) writes:

> In TESB, why the heck does Vader torture Solo?  Even Solo himself says they
> didn't ask him any questions.

It was a trap for Luke.  Vader tortured Solo so that Luke would feel Solo's pain,
realize his friend's were in trouble and come to Cloud City to attempt to
save them.

> In ROTJ don't you think Leia and Luke should have been a little more 'banged
> up' after they fall off their speeder bikes?  If I remember correctly the
> speeder bike can travel up to 200 mph (or 200 kmh? can't remember the units)
> Even if they were travelling at half the speed its likely they would've been
> killed.

Well Luke's a Jedi - he's pretty good at surviving hard-falls too -
remember the Cloud-City shaft :-)  Leia must have gotten lucky - it happens
alot when you're a SkyWalker :-)  Besides, she fell hard-enough to knock
herself unconscious and when she woke up she looked pretty sore.

> In ANH, is Greedo considered to be a bounty hunter or just one of Jabba's
> 'henchmen'?

I'd say that Greedo considers _himself_ to be a bounty-hunter.  "Jabba's
set a price on your head so large that every bounty-hunter in the galaxy
will be looking for you.  I'm lucky that I found you first" or something
like that he says.  He's obviously not in the same class as someone like
Bobba-Fett though!

> In ROTJ, Luke struggles vainly to get Vader to the shuttle at the end of the
> movie.  Why didn't he use the force to levitate him to the ship?

Well we never see the Force unmistakably used to levitate living objects so
some people say it can't be done.  I don't agree with this though.  Personally
I think that Luke was both physically and mentally exhausted after his battle.
It would have been just as difficult if not moreso for him to use the Force
to move Vader as it was for him to do it physically.

> In TESB, who is this Hobby that Luke keeps referring to during the
> snowspeeder scenes?  He's obviously must be a pilot, but why is he cut from
> the film?

Not every pilot engaged in every combat action is shown on screen in any
of the films.  In RotJ Death-Star battle we hear lots of pilot names/
call-signs refered to that we don't actually see.  Doesn't seem like a
major omission to me.

> In ANH, how does Porkins (Red 9?) die?  It is just a malfunction in his ship
> or did he get caught in some sort of magnetic field?

I always assumed it was a malfunction caused by battle damage.

>
> Well, I hope these will keep the group busy for a while so we don't have to
> continously read the replies to what Mr. Star Wars fans get a life posted.

Hmm.  You need to ask tougher questions to keep us busy 8)

>
> Flames Welcomed!
>

No flames here.

> Brad Larsen
> lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca
>

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