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[Protistology]

The Death Star exhaust vent vulnerability always made sense to me as a simple design oversight on the part of the Empire. Thematically it made sense to portray the Empire as blinded by hubris, as they were so prepared to defend against a frontal assault by Rebel capital ships that they overlooked how a simple fighter could destroy the whole thing, which the Rebels uncover and exploit. This type of concept was used a lot in the type of pulp media Star Wars was based on.

The Rebels/Jedi are spiritual. The Empire are materialists. The Empire loses because they have no spirituality but trust completely in technology.

Maybe the writers of Rogue One should have watched A New Hope.

 

[BlueSpark]

The new Plinkett video was meandering bullshit and Mike is delusional if he thinks his critiques of all the things he's complained about over the years are any more intelligent than the content creators he makes fun of in the video. And the shitlibbery seeped in too, like diarrhea.
Also that smarmy fag's George Lucas impression was shitty and Rich's has far more sovl

The last good Plinkett "review" was at the end of that Halloween HitB a few years back.

 

[Schway]

"Old man angry that the people he hates were right and the politics he espouses are in fact making things horrible" basically RLM for the last however-many years. Smugly chuckle and explain how it's actually very complex and not clear why movies are like this now, if pushed vaguely mention profits.

Truth is Plinket has been outmoded, pointing out objective flaws in a movie regarding logic/directing ect. isn't something unique anymore and can be found in many much more contemporary forms.

Who wants to watch a guy complain about people replacing him but *gasp* not being good little libtards for most of the runtime? He seems to think someone addressing the obvious political bend somehow disqualifies them from criticism when it's in-fact his constant covering for the woke stuff that should disqualify him. He most likely does this as a way to put himself "above" the avg reviewer, a different class from the daily video that pops up in the YouTube recommendations, and ironically this was his chance to prove that was the case, that there was life in the old man yet.
I think it's time to call to coroner...

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

I never thought Mike would be able to make a Plinkett review boring and run nearly an hour without saying anything, but here we are.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Think of the scale of the operation. No one fucking notices, not even the engineers?

The Ford Pinto exists, nigga

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

The Ford Pinto exists, nigga

Existed, but yes. It's not even that much of a vulnerability, as 2 meters is about 6 and a half feet in Freedom units. Seeing as how it's space planes firing energy missiles at it, it's reasonable to believe no one would make that shot.

 

[The Mighty Banth]

Seriously, how many times has he done that shtick of pretending to be "done with Star Wars" at this point?

Spousal abuse is a difficult trap to escape.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

Think of the scale of the operation. No one fucking notices, not even the engineers?

"There is a tiny port that could lead to big problems if a small fighter were to somehow navigate down a trench full of Point Defense Lasers and our fighters in order to fire a missile directly into it because actually trying to fly directly at the port would be instant death, except no because the circumstances of the shot are outright impossible for targeting computers to make."

Rogue One actually makes a bigger plot hole by making "the secret designed in death star weakness" a fucking near impossible shot to land that literally requires space magic rather than say, anything else.
Luke actually landing the shot and not dying was practically a fucking miracle, and Luke is meant to be an exceptionally skilled pilot himself, even outside of his space magic.

End of the day, think of say, an M1 Abrams tank, practically nigh invulnerable without an equivelant weapon.
Now think of what would happen if the "weakness" of the tank was determined to be tossing a small golfball sized explosive directly down its fucking main gun barrel before it shreds you into pieces. That was pretty much what the Rebels were attempting to do. It only worked because Luke quite literally has in-universe plot armor.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

"There is a tiny port that could lead to big problems if a small fighter were to somehow navigate down a trench full of Point Defense Lasers and our fighters in order to fire a missile directly into it because actually trying to fly directly at the port would be instant death, except no because the circumstances of the shot are outright impossible for targeting computers to make."

Rogue One actually makes a bigger plot hole by making "the secret designed in death star weakness" a fucking near impossible shot to land that literally requires space magic rather than say, anything else.
Luke actually landing the shot and not dying was practically a fucking miracle, and Luke is meant to be an exceptionally skilled pilot himself, even outside of his space magic.

End of the day, think of say, an M1 Abrams tank, practically nigh invulnerable without an equivelant weapon.
Now think of what would happen if the "weakness" of the tank was determined to be tossing a small golfball sized explosive directly down its fucking main gun barrel before it shreds you into pieces. That was pretty much what the Rebels were attempting to do. It only worked because Luke quite literally has in-universe plot armor.

And Luke was practically the last man available too. The attack plan was to get the Y-Wings into position for the bombing run as they are better equipped for that sort of task. That falls through because Vader kept shooting them down. The chain of command breaks down to whoever is in position to make that shot, which is why two squadrons turn into three fighters at the end of it.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

And Luke was practically the last man available too. The attack plan was to get the Y-Wings into position for the bombing run as they are better equipped for that sort of task. That falls through because Vader kept shooting them down. The chain of command breaks down to whoever is in position to make that shot, which is why two squadrons turn into three fighters at the end of it.

It was a literal hail mary suicide mission, too. Like, every one of those pilots knew that they were almost definitely going to die. If they got hit even once? They were dead. No option of retreat, no option of making a crash landing. The only way to exploit the "weakness" in the death star was to fucking suicide mission it and hope for the best.
That was the best plan that the Rebel Alliance could come up with, a suicide mission hinging upon a single pilot's ability to make an impossible shot.

Some fucking weakness, thanks Galen, you couldn't have just set the engine to overheat and blow up the damn thing when the superlaser was charged or something? Had to rely on a sneaky group of Rebels to do the impossible?

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I never thought Mike would be able to make a Plinkett review boring and run nearly an hour without saying anything, but here we are.

Came to this thread just to say that.

The Plinkett review of The Force Awakens basically conveys a similar message to this new video, but it's actually funny and entertaining.

Also, I acknowledge that the Prequels are not good movies ... But the fact that RLM keeps going back to the Prequels to still bitch about them is every bit as old as they claim that "BroTube" complaining about Disney is.

Star Wars has become so fucking boring that not even Mr. Plinkett can create decent content from it. Ah well. lol.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

I was going to say this shouldn't have been a plinket video but instead they should've cut the first half of the video focused on the Acolyte/prequels and Andor discussion and just made it a black void video. That would require Jay and Rich though and I don't think they wanted anything to do with this. The end section changed that, I think this was Mike getting closure on SW as a franchise.

 

[Vibralldo]

The new Plinkett video was meandering bullshit and Mike is delusional if he thinks his critiques of all the things he's complained about over the years are any more intelligent than the content creators he makes fun of in the video. And the shitlibbery seeped in too, like diarrhea.
Also that smarmy fag's George Lucas impression was shitty and Rich's has far more sovl

The last good Plinkett "review" was at the end of that Halloween HitB a few years back.

Mike's doubling down on the "who cares about modern star wars being shit?" take is double retarded because he's still to this day says "I'm so mad that modern star trek is shit"

Saying "the hate for the acolyte makes no sense because it's basically the prequels" is also an insane thing to say in a plinkett review

 

[Shartavius]

Mike has been publishing videos accusing Star Wars of being creatively bankrupt since 2009. And the content of every video has been the latest Star Wars.

 

[Seafarer]

Also, I acknowledge that the Prequels are not good movies ... But the fact that RLM keeps going back to the Prequels to still bitch about them is every bit as old as they claim that "BroTube" complaining about Disney is.

I think a lot of this boils down to thinly veiled seething that a lot of people have come around to the prequels and countered a lot of the narratives about the films that RLM were instrumental in pushing. For whatever reason that seems to chap their ass like nothing else despite claiming they don’t care about Star Wars or its fandom.

Also for shitting on the repetitive “Disney bad” YouTube cottage industry, they seem to forget that RLM was part of a similar industry that sprung up around the prequels. Basically any YouTube review of the prequels before around the time the sequel trilogy popped up just regurgitated the same talking points as the Plinkett reviews. Was RLM making snide comments about that group of YouTubers for their unoriginality and beating of a dead horse?

 

[Spaceman Spud]

I feel vindicated in dropping RLM when they said Star Wars Episode 7 was good.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I think a lot of this boils down to thinly veiled seething that a lot of people have come around to the prequels and countered a lot of the narratives about the films that RLM were instrumental in pushing. For whatever reason that seems to chap their ass like nothing else despite claiming they don’t care about Star Wars or its fandom.

Also for shitting on the repetitive “Disney bad” YouTube cottage industry, they seem to forget that RLM was part of a similar industry that sprung up around the prequels. Basically any YouTube review of the prequels before around the time the sequel trilogy popped up just regurgitated the same talking points as the Plinkett reviews. Was RLM making snide comments about that group of YouTubers for their unoriginality and beating of a dead horse?

Indeed they were shitting on other YouTubers for talking about modern Star Wars. No ifs, ands, or buts.

I'd say Mike even "called out" specific people by playing out of context clips of them. One of the clips they used was from conservative commentator Michael Knowles as well.

Mike Stoklasa making a Plinkett video that comes across almost like an idubbbz video was not on my bingo card, but here we are. lol.

I unsubbed from RLM a year ago after the infamous Acolyte video. I was curious enough to check out a new Plinkett video, but hooo boy I did not expect for Mike to double down on that awful Acolyte video.

 

[Dr. Jaime Reyes]

End of the day, think of say, an M1 Abrams tank, practically nigh invulnerable without an equivelant weapon.
Now think of what would happen if the "weakness" of the tank was determined to be tossing a small golfball sized explosive

It's a paint balloon, child. Do have fun.

 

[Wild at Heart]

If Mike really wanted to be insightful, he would dive (more) into the honest-to-God cult the Zoomer Prequel Revisionists have become.

These cultists gaslight themselves into a state of psychosis and double-think in which they pick and choose from Star Wars shows, video games, and spinoffs , and assign those nuggets of good storytelling to the original Prequel movies. They insist that dialogue written in 2005, referencing a movie from 1983, is proof that these movies were planned from the beginning. They bend time itself to state that when the George Lucas of 1977 was filming Star Wars, he already knew he was making the fourth episode of his saga, and was planning 30 years ahead to projects up to and after The Clone Wars CGI cartoon ( 2008 ).

"how profound!"

To them, The ( 2008 ) Clone Wars CGI cartoon IS the Prequel Trilogy. This show (which was created to basically do damage control for how God awful Obi-Wan and Anakin are portrayed in the Prequel trilogy) is just expanding on the already genius writing groundwork laid in 1999-2005! I have the (as I now understand) rare perspective of having never seen The Clone Wars, yet growing up with the Prequels. I remember the boring robot men known as Obi-Wan and Anakin. There was no chemistry or friendship to connect to. They were cardboard cutouts trying to be buddy cops. I believe that most people my age mentally merged The well written Clone Wars with the Prequels, and cannot separate the two in their mind.

It is hard to describe this attitude as any way other than zealotry, where the Revisionists break logic and constantly muddy and scramble the timeline to pay infinite homage to George's genius and how amazing the Prequels are. Grasping at straws and creating hundreds of headcanons that are instantly adopted by this fandom, because any invented ammunition is more reason to justify your adoration for these completely unremarkable movies. The Ring Theory and "best watch order" are just the tip of the iceberg. "Anakin is Lucifer, the prequels are an underrated epic that tap into secret religious symbolism and whose scenes reference countless Renaissance paintings."



These movies were totally not sloppily thrown together cash grabs by an out of touch aging director who was coerced into creating another toy money machine. Something about these people refusing to just appreciate these movies for what they are (like the Twilight fandom is capable of) makes any and all bashing on them fun. I appreciate Mike digging up this dead beef for petty reasons, because I am equally petty towards them for my own reasons. My age group is full of people trying to convince me these are underappreciated masterpieces. I didn't live through such disappointment in my childhood to see history revised! Fuck you, zealots!!!

 

[TenMilesWide]

It was a literal hail mary suicide mission, too. Like, every one of those pilots knew that they were almost definitely going to die. If they got hit even once? They were dead. No option of retreat, no option of making a crash landing. The only way to exploit the "weakness" in the death star was to fucking suicide mission it and hope for the best.
That was the best plan that the Rebel Alliance could come up with, a suicide mission hinging upon a single pilot's ability to make an impossible shot.

To be fair, with how soon the Death Star showed up after the Falcon dropped off the plans, it was either almost definitely die flying the trench or definitely die from the moon exploding underfoot. Perhaps under less dire circumstances they could've come up with a better plan, but hail mary suicide mission is the hand they were dealt.

Some fucking weakness, thanks Galen, you couldn't have just set the engine to overheat and blow up the damn thing when the superlaser was charged or something? Had to rely on a sneaky group of Rebels to do the impossible?

Not a big fan of the "vent was an on-purpose weakness created by a double agent" wrinkle either in disney or original EU because ANH felt like it went to a good length in that briefing scene indicating this vent is something mechanically necessary for the station to function, which the designers had carefully considered and built fortifications around - but at least I'm pretty sure the EU had some handwave in there about "well of course our double agent had to make it believable to his superiors, he wouldn't survive very long if he delivered plainly faulty designs." Been a while since I watched it, did Rogue One not include that handwave?