It even failed against Ewok attacks. lol
Yeah, the Banking Clan on Muunilinst surely had some accounts with Alderaanian citizy money. In an Expanded Universe book, I think the money from Alderaan was an issue. :rolleyes:
Still my favorite line of the movie.
Hoooooray for diversity!! 
I think Adywan would have needed a very good copy of the Tatooine-Biggs scene to incorporate it in this version so the picture would have a continuous quality.
Exactly what frakkintalos said was also my thot. 
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe only at the Battle of Endor we see female Rebel fighter pilots. 
Thanks for answering Cassilda’s question Thunderscreech.
Maybe Vader choking her for 15 seconds coused a blood vessel to burst in her brain. Yeah yeah, ik that was very apologetic.
Clone stormtroopers: “These ahn’t the droids wir lookin’ foh, now oi! Throw ahnotha space shrimp on tha barbie!”
It seemed funny that the clone troopers in II and III all had Jango’s accent. And when I say funny, I guess I mean “stupid”.
I think I remember hearing somewhere that it would take a while to recharge the capacitors feeding the superlaser between shots, so that would have taken longer than going around. The Death Star 2 got around that since it didn’t need full power shots to melt ships.
What’s really strange is that audiobooks of the EU (at least, the few that I’ve listened to) use that accent for all Mandalorians, as if it’s the New Zealand planet.
IMO, it’s pretty clear that they’re waiting for a clear shot at the moon, rather than dealing with any kind of power issue. There’s a computer screen tracking the moon coming out from behind the planet. Still, even if the Death Star wasn’t capable of detonating a gas giant, firing into it would probably eject a massive plume of hot gas into space, which would be more than enough to wipe out the life on a moon.
Oh, I misunderstood, I thought your question was why they didn’t shoot the gas giant to clear the way to shoot the moon, not shooting through the gas giant to hit the moon.
What I was saying was that if it took a while to recharge, it might be quicker to go around the planet to get a clear shot at the moon rather than destroying the gas giant to get a clear shot at the moon.
The Star Wars EU has established (for their canon) that a ship making a jump to hyperspace under scrutiny can have its destination known. Hyperspace isn’t (usually) like some sort of warp drive that you can ‘drop out of’, it’s a ‘we are jumping to these coordinates’ thing, and a ship watching with the right instruments can jump right after them. Now, this is bolstered to a certain degree in this film by having the Death Star appear to jump to where the Millenium Falcon jumped. You note that they have to fly around Yavin to get to the moon with the base, and likewise, the DS must do the same.
But then… we have the dialogue which describes a ‘homing beacon’ on the ship. If they had a homing beacon, why wouldn’t they just jump right next to the moon that the dang Millenium Falcon was sitting on? Or was it a beacon that just gave, say, the hyperspace exit coordinates or something?
If the homing beacon really worked, then whoever was at the wheel for the DS must have been in some pretty serious danger of getting written up for not jumping into attack range.
Unless… let’s see… unless the DS needed time to charge up the Superlaser following their hyperspace jump, and consequently chose to jump where they did for strategic reasons… Yeah, let’s make that the reason for this.
BTW, did Alderaan have much space traffic? How many ships would be flying around that system when everything went down? Anyone there have a camcorder? Or would “stunning footage of the terrorist stronghold of Alderaan being neutralized” be something the Empire would want out there? I guess that would fit with the ‘Tarkin doctrine’ alluded to by Mr. Cushing.