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Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:45 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Mikey wrote:As I said, it is nice at least to see some thought put into the design based on what it's canon successors look like.
Rochey wrote:I'll keep an eye out for it.
After you see it, you'll want to PUT an eye out.

No indication of Anakin's ambivalence or precursors of his leaning toward the Dark Side, save for a headstrong streak; Plo Koon is constantly willing to sit and let Skywalker do whatever he wants, even when he disagrees; Ashoka makes you want to drop-kick her like a rugby ball; and Greivous is portrayed as a buffoonish, foiled-every-ep cartton villain.
Yeah. They forgot the whole "I SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE ANIMALS!" bit, among others.

EDIT:

And I'll have to keep an eye out for that tower, SSM12.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:18 pm
by Deepcrush
Where are the stats for this ship from? I'll have to read up on this thing.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:29 pm
by SuperSaiyaMan12
Deepcrush wrote:Where are the stats for this ship from? I'll have to read up on this thing.
Wookiepedia.com.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:37 am
by Deepcrush
Ok, so where did the other 75% of those stats you put up come from?

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:56 pm
by SuperSaiyaMan12
Deepcrush wrote:Ok, so where did the other 75% of those stats you put up come from?
Visual Evidence.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:05 pm
by Deepcrush
Okay...

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:33 pm
by KuvahMagh
I've caught a few pieces of episodes and yeah it doesn't seem that inspired. As for the ships having vulnerable Bridges I would say that is just an evolution from what modern Warships are like, back in the ages of sail being exposed was the only way you could do it and we have carried that on, though Combat Control is buried deep in the ship the Bridge were the watch is and where the CO generally is is still exposed to enemy fire. When Lucas and co design the Death Star they likely wanted to created that feel for people, in fact the front of the SD Bridge Tower is pretty similar in appearance to the squared one on USS Enterprise. He probably wanted that familiarity to be instantaneous rather than having to describe to people where it was, not to mention that like every other series/movie from that era had a similar position for their Bridge, even Starfleet suffers from it and that is truly ridiculous.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:53 am
by Mikey
I didn't say that the idiotic bridge positioning was esclusive to Star Wars, just that it's still idiotic.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:03 am
by KuvahMagh
I was replying more to Seafort's follow on post there.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:08 pm
by Sionnach Glic
While that's the most likely out of universe explaination, it doesn't really explain why so many different shipyards would build ships with ridiculously exposed bridges.

Re: Ship of the Week: Malevolence

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:49 pm
by KuvahMagh
Rochey wrote:While that's the most likely out of universe explaination, it doesn't really explain why so many different shipyards would build ships with ridiculously exposed bridges.
'Show no Fear'?

I agree, it doesn't have anyplace on a Star ship unless you are relying on visual detection, which given the generally advanced sensor systems doesn't make much sense.