You're both right.Graham Kennedy wrote:It was a very cool moment in the movie, though!Bryan Moore wrote:And if so, why the hell did they not do something like this do the Death Star? Interdictor capability perhaps, with artificial gravity wells? Also, why didn't Laura Dern and the crew not do this way earlier in the film? Or why not set a few droids up to do this for them? This was a huge flaw for me.Nutso wrote:Is light speed ship ramming now the ultimate power in the universe?
Now that the concept has been canonically demonstrated it's clear that it can be used as a great equaling force in military terms, which (IRL) would also undermine the "underdog" David vs Goliath motif present since ANH.