joe_h wrote:
Then when Lucas tries to give them an explanation, they whine about how they didn't need an explanation.
I´ve gotten several good explanations already, and still fail to see why people who were never involved in the discussion to begin with, are harping on about it two days after it ended peacefully.
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First of all, can you tell me how long it should take to build a Death Star in a fantasy world?
We only have other sources besides the films themselves to judge that in writing. You seem to think these kinds of discussions only use arguments made up by the fans, but that isn´t so. Other works from the same fictional universe are used if they contain any additional knowledge on the subject.
Once again, if you don´t like that kind of discussion, then stay out of it.
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As for how long it took the second Death Star to be built, when and where did the films ever say it took only 3-4 years to build.
In the opening crawl to ROTJ, they state the Empire has begun to build another. The wording makes it sound as if this happened after the first was destroyed.
And since the official timeline states that ROTJ happened 4 years after ANH, then that is the most probable timeframe for it´s construction. Now, we could suppose that immidiately after the first was made and proven successfull, the second began production, but that still wouldn´t give more than a few extra days or weeks.
I like the "keeping the Senate in the dark/extensively test the first" as a good explanation for the extended timeframe.
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Besides, it's obvious that the second Death Star is not finished. Take on look at the picture. It's obviously in mid-construction.
Yes, thank you, I have seen the movie enough times to know it isn´t finished.
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You'd think they'd build the death star from the inside-out. At least the structure itself
I thought they did?