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Originally Posted by Regorium
It's by far the worst scene in the movie. Cinematically, very very cool, but it completely rips apart the rules of the Star Wars universe.
Why didn't anyone think of doing that against the death star in ROTJ? Especially when the half completed death star was decimating Rebel cruisers - surely one of them would've just FTL rammed it and won the fight.
The A-wing that smashed into the bridge of the super star destroyer might as well have just light-speed battering ram and taken out a lot more than just the flagship.
Why didn't they do that in Yavin 4? Why even have this long convoluted scene with Luke Skywalker when you could've just FTL rammed it with 10 Xwings and called it a day?
Because it's basic lightspeed technology, you could say this for literally any fight that's ever happened in star wars including the prequels. It tears apart the suspension of belief in the world that they have created when rules change for no reason.
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I don’t see how they changed rules. Technically this was always possible - basic sci fi rules are that you need to take time to plot a course that doesn’t hit something, so deliberately hitting something was always possible. Why didn’t they do it in earlier battles? Who knows. Why didn’t she do it earlier in the same sequence, when she already knew she was going to die? Maybe she literally just thought of it. Or maybe it was against the code and this was the point it shifted to total war. Whatever, it happened, but it doesn’t cheapen the other movies. You can look back at any movie and say what if but what’s the point.
Plus, it was super cool.