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nightmare wrote:It looks to me like this guy Hidalgo also had a hand in a lot of RPG material. Course, I don't know if he's responsible for the messed up numbers. But if he is, a pox at you!

The Kernel wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:If we really want to send a message, then we should consider a boycott of Episode III.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:

nightmare wrote:It looks to me like this guy Hidalgo also had a hand in a lot of RPG material. Course, I don't know if he's responsible for the messed up numbers. But if he is, a pox at you!

Probably why he has such a stiff against people like Mike and Curtis. They are a threat to his importance and the continued wait and proliferation of his crap.

Imagine if everyone took a Suspension of Disbelief/canon heirarchy view of the material. How many completist fanboys would be left to suck up his RPG stats and Insider articles just because?

Chris OFarrell wrote:If Endor was fried or not is irrelevant. I don't really care, as long as Lucasfilm had taken a strong position one way or the other.

But this response is complete and utter bullshit. Saying 'fuck you' to your most supportive fanbase OFFICALY, is fucking stupid. Especially as I bet that the vast majority of people on web boards like SD.net or SB.com or any of the other major intellectually oriented scifi boards actually have far more knowledge of physics then the dickheads like this guy.

Insulting a major part of your fanbase who calls your complete BS is NOT a good way to keep it, especialy one thats becoming disillusioned with the SW franchise.

Icehawk wrote:Would it be possible for someone who has the issue to quote the response? Im just curious to read exactly what he says.

Star Wars Insider Issue 76 “Q&A” wrote:I read online somewhere that Endor suffers an immense cataclysm after the destruction of the second Death star, and all the Ewoks are killed. Is this true?

Don't buy into anti-Ewok propaganda. It sounds like the Empire's behind that particular rumor.

Though many learned scholars and students of physics have micro-examined the Star Wars films for scientific accuracy and have come away with an entertaining degree of consistency, in some cases, science has to be thrown out the window. Armchair physicists have to look away when a screaming TIE fighter passes through the vacuum of space, when a particularly volatile explosion combusts in an airless void, or when giant yellow letters inexplicable to the known rules of the universe float lazily into infinity. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's only a movie.

And it's a movie with a happy ending. Though there are undoubtedly any number of physical models that would indicate that the detonation of a moon-sized object in the upper atmosphere of a forest planetoid would wreck untold havoc on the local ecology, that’s not what happens. It was George Lucas’ intent that the fuzzy little Ewoks and their Rebel friends live happily ever after, and nuclear winters don’t fit into his model.

But there is a pseudorational explanation – from an unlikely source: In The Glove of Darth Vader, a children’s book published in the early 1990s, is a description of a wormhole that opened during the Death Star’s fiery demise and sucked debris – including Darth Vader’s indestructible glove (yeah, you read that correctly) – all the way across the galaxy to the planet Mon Calamari.

If we accept the hazy rules of hypermatter quasi-physics and plot-convenient wormholes, then surely suggesting the worst of the Death Star fallout also got sucked out into hyperspace isn’t too much of a stretch.

Darth Wong wrote:I don't believe it. He actually cited the opening crawl as evidence against rational interpretation, as if the only rational way to interpret the text is as big floating yellow letter-shaped objects in space.