In which I bitch about Star Wars some more.

Ok, more about Star Wars, which I think is going to become a running theme on this blog.

Here's something interesting: You remember in the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, when they have to crashland the spaceship on the runway? Ok, obvious question: Corusant is a planet wide city, yeah? How many runways are there on it? How many could there be? And one big enough to land a battleship on, not your average rinkydink airport. The answer is that there have to be a shitload for them to find one with no problem. It wasn't even a question of emergency landing in some patch of ground or body of water, becuase there aren't any on Corusant, because it's a fucking planet-wide city. We saw what Corusant is like in Attack, and in the scene in Sith itself: there are skyscrapers fucking everywhere. But whoops, hey, without any steering or directing, or even the part of the ship that has the engines, they're able to bullseye a huge fucking runway. Why is there a huge fucking runway in the middle of skyscrapers?

How about this, though: have you ever seen any vehicle in Star Wars use a runway? Ever? Aren't they all vertical takeoff and landing? All of them?

Want your mind blown even more? In the Star Wars movies, how many things even have wheels? Hm? What craft uses wheels, WHEELS, the fucking most basic form of transportation and probably one of the earliest things ever invented? Can you think of anything? I can think of one or two, not counting droids, and let me tell you none of those things were even near that fucking runway.

EDIT: Because I just realized and it made me mad enough to come back and edit: even the fucking WHEELCHAIRS don't have wheels. In Attack, Owen Lar's dad is all crippled by sandpeople and he floats around in a fucking hoverchair.

So if all of your ships are VTOL and none of your craft even have wheels, why is there an enormous runway (and by extension, tens of thousands if not more for them to be able to find and hit one so easily) in the middle of your goddamn planet-wide city?

So I wrote this for a couple of reasons. First of all, the excellent webcomic Darths and Droids (www.darthsanddroids.net), which goes through the Star Wars movies as though they're an RPG adventure, have just hit that part of Sith. Also, Harry Plinkett (redlettermedia.com) is about to review Sith, and I wanted to toss this out there because if he doesn't mention it, I'll be surprised.

So yeah.