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Re: MOC: Dewback
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:05:40 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Laswell wrote:
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Well, for a possible in-story explanation, if they didn’t have a regular
garrison there (and it’s implied that they didn’t), they might have had the
same trouble adjusting their speeders and such to desert conditions as the
Rebels did adjusting theirs to the extreme cold temperatures. Since time was
of utmost importance, if they didn’t have their own means of transportation,
they would have had to acquire indigenous means of getting around.
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Seems to me the indigenous form of transportation was speeders. I didn’t see
Luke, or anyone other than stormtroopers for that matter, driving a dewback
around.
If I was a stormtrooper I’d have commandeered something a bit more comfortable
and rapid than a giant lizard. But that’s just me.
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The simple explanation is that ANH predates both TESB and ROTJ, so maybe
Lucas hadn’t considered the idea of ground-based assault craft yet when he
okayed the Dewbacks, and cutting them completely for the SE release seemed a
bit too revisionist, even for him.
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I honestly don’t think it was anylised that far. I just like taking pokes at
some of the more glaring illogicalities in the film. It’s still one of my
favourites nevertheless.
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The likelihood that they’d have to care for and feed them without ever having
a chance to use them doesn’t seem particularly efficient, in a society that
already has means of getting around without such beasts.
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Maybe they normally eat them and pressed them into transport duties merely as a
last resort. Those kooky Imperials are just the type to be lizard-eaters.
Allister
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| (...) Well, for a possible in-story explanation, if they didn't have a regular garrison there (and it's implied that they didn't), they might have had the same trouble adjusting their speeders and such to desert conditions as the Rebels did (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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