Star Wars etc quandaries ?

sev112

Ok, just watched the Manolorian all the way through and the following occurred to me.
presumably the SW etc knowledgeables will have the Answer...

so we have Death Stars, and we have star destroyers and we have 1 person x wings, and space ships which take off form the middle of the street and go into deep space and hyperspace.  We have speeders, and we have blasters and all sorts of weird and wonderful weapons.  We have 3D hologram video clips,

but nobody has a mobile phone ...?  

Even Star Trek had communicators,

all of the SW cast have to go into a space ship to make contact with anyone .  Anyone lost in the desert after their space ship has blown up or their speeder has broken are incommunicado ?

what’s that all about ?

great series by the way

EricTheWeary

It’s in a galaxy far, far away so their technology isn’t an evolution of our technology ( do the humans even originate from earth?). 

And it’s fiction. 

fretmeister

It would ruin everything.

Leia could have just emailed the Death Star plans right at the beginning and saved all the bother.

WezV

They have communicators in canon.... even holo ones held in the palm

LuttiS

fretmeister said:

Leia could have just emailed the Death Star plans right at the beginning and saved all the bother.

Sorry this attachment is too big... Going to have to Dropbox that sucker! 

Sassafras

Nokia's just don't have the range, and you try getting top-ups in space.

phil_b

Mobile phones only work because of the masts. No mobile network on far away planets or in space or anywhere near my house

TimmyO

I guess it's somewhat a limitation of imagination stemming from when it was made that has been honoured as it has developed - now it's just a part of the "willing suspension of disbelief" that's necessary for a lot of entertainment to work. 

TimmyO

TimmyO said:

I guess it's somewhat a limitation of imagination stemming from when it was made that has been honoured as it has developed - now it's just a part of the "willing suspension of disbelief" that's necessary for a lot of entertainment to work. 

Wasn't it Back To The Future 2 that imagined a fax machine in every corner? :-) Pocket Comms seem.hard tomimagine even a few decades ago 

monquixote

 Communiation on planets fine, but other communication would have to propagate at light speed so it becomes reasonable that ships with warp drives are the only mechanism to distribute messages between distant planets.

Also it's a film.

Cols

Pretty sure they do.  Han and Luke had communicators on the Death Star for keeping in touch with C3PO.  They were constantly yapping on them on Hoth, and Lando’s sidekick on Cloud City had a really Gucci number built into his head.

Caffeine_Vampire

RU on o2? 

Trude

Cols said:

Pretty sure they do.  Han and Luke had communicators on the Death Star for keeping in touch with C3PO.  They were constantly yapping on them on Hoth, and Lando’s sidekick on Cloud City had a really Gucci number built into his head.

There's a bald guy where I work who often walks around with a blank expression and a big pair of over-the-ear wireless headphones on. I'll never be able to remember his real name because to me he'll always be Lobot.

dano

sev112 said:

but nobody has a mobile phone ...?  

They also don't have wifi. R2D2 always has to plug into the computer.

And don't mention in Episode 9 how the Death Star crashed into Endor but didnt cause a massive climactic disaster, like when the much smaller comet wiped out the dinosaurs.

See the quandary, you did.

Trude

dano said:

sev112 said:

but nobody has a mobile phone ...?  

They also don't have wifi. R2D2 always has to plug into the computer.

And don't mention in Episode 9 how the Death Star crashed into Endor but didnt cause a massive climactic disaster, like when the much smaller comet wiped out the dinosaurs.

See the quandary, you did.

Yeah, or how in ROTJ it clearly explodes into zillions of tiny fragments, yet later seems to have much of the structure still intact, even after crashing through a planetary atmosphere and smashing into the ground

Sassafras

I've never seen anyone use toilet paper in Star Wars.

Cols

Sassafras said:

I've never seen anyone use toilet paper in Star Wars.

Errrr… what kind of films are you watching?!

Caffeine_Vampire

Cols said:

Sassafras said:

I've never seen anyone use toilet paper in Star Wars.

Errrr… what kind of films are you watching?!

Revenge of the shit.

sev112

Next quandry ...

you never see anyone saying, “hold on , my blaster is recharging, I’ll be with you in a minute”

ICBM

Trude said:

Yeah, or how in ROTJ it clearly explodes into zillions of tiny fragments, yet later seems to have much of the structure still intact, even after crashing through a planetary atmosphere and smashing into the ground

And of all the possible orientations in three axes a sphere can land in, by a remarkable coincidence it just happens to be the one where the Emperor's command chair is the right way up...

Part IX was utter tripe though - if you want to see how it should have ended, read the Colin Trevorrow script which was binned in favour of it - it's an absolute travesty that it wasn't what they made.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xeO1V2T_abmbKSdDWe7nivLM4OOKnEWG/view

JerkMoans

I find your lack of faith disturbing....