[ion eon]

Sounds like a blast!

[Despondent]

I guess you guys are right. It would be the same if an older person taunted me: "you may think you're a big fan of the Beatles, but you have no idea how cool it was to experience Beatlemania first hand". Don't they understand that Ringo's latest solo album is just as good as Abbey Road?

[barend]

I liked the bit where Han walks out into a massive, endless, blizzarding wasteland and just happens to bump into Luke.

"Hey buddy! What are the chances of this happening?"

"Dunno, Han! About the same as a couple of droids launching randoming down to the surface of a planet and just happening to land in the exact place where Lucas needs them to be! Great plan, Leia!"

"Thanks i thought of it while doing my hair the way i remmber my moms hair from the 12 seconds i knew her."

but i must admit, as a kid the whole droids landing within walking/jawa ride/farm break from their target was certainly a bit lucky.... i mean you could easily say she had cordinates, because R2 seemed to know where he was going... but at the end of the day it's a small world after all.

[civilian_number_two]

3P0 asks R2 why he wants to go that way, and R2 tells him, to which 3P0 admonishes him for getting all technical. Han found Luke because the GPS in his radio worked in the storm, albeit only at close range (because of the storm). Since Han knew where Luke was posted, he just circled around until he got a bead on him.

Anyway, who cares about that? It's not science fiction. The little nonsense is only annoying if there is really big nonsense as well (we've had this argument before).

[jariten]

I don’t care about that stuff at all. It’s just that other thing going on in the RotS got me in the mood.

[barend]

for what, pretending not to loose an argument

[CowboyCurtis]

Also, Ben's "ghost" was standing there all dark against white and Han saw him, thinking it was Luke, which then lead Han to Luke, of course. This is verified in the novel.

[Gobbler]

That's funny... my book didn't mention that. Must be because of the darned German translation.

[azerty]

You know, GPS recievers only work because there are satellites circling the planet constantly broadcasting time and identification numbers. The reciever knows where the satellites are, and not the other weay around. It's possible that the rebels might have set up a satellite system like this around Hoth, but I doubt it. Too much radio transmission would be blaring around a supposedly deserted planet, and it would be detected by the enemy. A storm won't affect a GPS recieving system in any way, and neither will distance, so that argument doesn't make any sense for at least 2 reasons. Anyway, what you probably mean is that Lukes radio had some kind of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) and Solo was picking that up.

But I know we all hate facts in our space fantasies, so I always assumed that Han just got lucky...

[CowboyCurtis]

You know what, I said that so glibly, and so certainly, I had to check.

You are right. I am wrong. I could've sworn I read it that way, but then, it's been about 15 years since I had. I retract my statement...

[Gobbler]

It's alright, I only remembered it because I read it three days ago out of sheer boredom. *sigh* I need more books...

[barend]

who cares, people find survivers in the snow all the time...

what people don't do, not only not every day but ever, is surf on lava.

[jariten]

Bashing the PT to distract attention away from some shit in the OT AGAIN.

Meeeeesa likea dis!

[georgelucas4greedo]

Doing illogical things to heighten tension is one thing, doing them just because you can is another. All movies have crap in them that would never happen in real life, just think of those huge bats from Temple of Doom that get in whats her names hair or the fact that Indy's inflatable boat fell hundreds of feet and everyone survived. If you had Indiana Jones doing flips over giant CGI bats or Indy suddenly jettison fire from his ass to stablize the fall from the plane it would be plain stupid.

[barend]

Bashing the PT to distract attention away from some shit in the OT AGAIN.

Meeeeesa likea dis!

ooooh distracting... smokescreen... cancerman... etc.

i was just a funny remark....

get over it, there's no OT consipiracy out to get you (after all... we are the minority, we controll nothing)