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That's just Alec Guiness being a pro: I doubt that Lucas' script or directing had anything to with with that magic moment of real character. You'll see the same gem acting from Peter Cushing during the death star conference table scene.
How cool would it have been to have cast Peter Cushing as the Emporer instead of Tarkin? Chilly cool, that's what.
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Although shooting the prequels would be difficult.
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Yeah, but he's still outshine Hayden Christensen by a light year.
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I really should have got the UK Flareites together to go see Christensen on stage during his "acting" stint in the West End, and we could all have thrown things. . .
quote:Originally posted by Nim: And Ian McDiarmid doesn't?
Of course he does, but so do most of the Ewoks.
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Isn't hyperspace another demension or plane of travel with mass shadows where systems and other large objects (Black holes) are located? Or is that just BS? That would explain for the fact that it is either extremely difficult or impossible to track a ship coming into a system until it returns to realspace.
I can't remember where i read that. Possibly a Sourcebook, which still may be BS.
In any case I believe that hyperspace travel is much faster than Warp travel. The problem with Star Wars is that alot of the things possible in the universe can't be explained by our science, unlike Star Trek which generally seems more probable scientifically.
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Except for transporters/replicators, alloy composition, radiation-types, communication, alien cultures, weapons, sensors, military protocols and warp speed I totally agree with you.
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Well here is my conclusion to this. The inhabitants of the Star Wars Galaxy has been there a VERY long time. We have proof of that since i remember something about how the Rebublic was around for thousands of years. Combine the years so everyone has space travel and you pretty much have a lot of years of exploration around the galaxy. But those are my 2 cents around how they have traveled across the galaxy.
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I agree tat the Republic was around for thousands of years (or mabye several hundred "standard years"). Trek is a much younger galaxy by spacefaring standards: we've almost never encounterd races in Trek with that kind of time in apace (Borg, The Dominion and the horribly stupid Voth being the obvious exceptions). Races that old in Trek tend to evolve into disembodied voices or bright special effects....
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I just assume that Hyperspace travel is relatively slow, and that the Star Wars galaxy is really really small, with minute distances between systems (hence the short time for the MF to get to Bespin without hyperdrive).
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Assuming that lack of hyperdrive = slower than lightspeed, the distance would have to be even less than minute. Going by onscreen evidence, Anoat would seem to be less than one light day away from Hoth, and probably much, much less.
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Unless the Falcon piggybacked to Anoat on that ISD or the actual trip to Bespin took months (which is somewhat supported by Luke leaping ahead in his training so much during the course of the movie) rather than days.
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Well they can't have piggybacked becuase the whole crux was that the Empire always jettisons their garbage before jumping to hyperspace, AM I RITE GUYS?!
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Quiet, you.
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