11th February 2004, 4:31 PM
Pay attention, they only use TWO mon cal models...the really long Home One model and the winged-blimpy on. Two blimpies are blown up. At the end, they show, as best I can tell when analyzing the engine wakes after the Falcon and Wedge blast outta the core, a bunch of Corellian corvettes, some weird shaped lights, and two big mon cals.
If you watch when the fleet first jumps into hyperspace en route for Endor, you'll see...maybe 15, 20 fighters (out of an allegd 4 wings of 72 fighters each), three Corellian corvettes, two or three Gallofree medium transports (the Hoth ones), one Nebulon-B, and both mon cal cruisers.
Again, when the fleet arrives at Endor, you'll see...just about the same. You can count and freeze frame, and you'll never see more than TWO mon cal cruisers at any one time, even when the show the entire fleet assembled. When Lando exclaims "pull up, all craft pull up!", you'll see the same two Mon Cals rolling and trying to slow down.
Two cruisers blow up. 2 - 2 = 0.
Afterwards, all we know FOR SURE is that the Home One survived, but it's just ridiculous to assume that the Rebellion only had one remaining capital cruiser. They must've had plenty of them...how much of a "perimeter" (as Ackbar called it) could they have set up against the Death Star with two heavy cruisers? (My Star Wars encyclopedia identified one of the lost mon cals as the Liberty, btw.)
OB1 & Great Rumbler--the Battle if super dandy and awesome, but it wouldn't have hurt to add some scenes. I personally don't care about the pod race scene, but the Battle of Endor--the greates battle in the entire Galactic War, the one that saw the birth of the New Republic and the fall of the Empire, well, they should care more about how it looks.
If you watch when the fleet first jumps into hyperspace en route for Endor, you'll see...maybe 15, 20 fighters (out of an allegd 4 wings of 72 fighters each), three Corellian corvettes, two or three Gallofree medium transports (the Hoth ones), one Nebulon-B, and both mon cal cruisers.
Again, when the fleet arrives at Endor, you'll see...just about the same. You can count and freeze frame, and you'll never see more than TWO mon cal cruisers at any one time, even when the show the entire fleet assembled. When Lando exclaims "pull up, all craft pull up!", you'll see the same two Mon Cals rolling and trying to slow down.
Two cruisers blow up. 2 - 2 = 0.
Afterwards, all we know FOR SURE is that the Home One survived, but it's just ridiculous to assume that the Rebellion only had one remaining capital cruiser. They must've had plenty of them...how much of a "perimeter" (as Ackbar called it) could they have set up against the Death Star with two heavy cruisers? (My Star Wars encyclopedia identified one of the lost mon cals as the Liberty, btw.)
OB1 & Great Rumbler--the Battle if super dandy and awesome, but it wouldn't have hurt to add some scenes. I personally don't care about the pod race scene, but the Battle of Endor--the greates battle in the entire Galactic War, the one that saw the birth of the New Republic and the fall of the Empire, well, they should care more about how it looks.
H.R.M. DARVNIVS MAXIMVS EX TENEBRIS EXIT REX DEVSQVE GORONORVMQVE TENDORVM ROMANORVM ET GRÆCORVM OMNIS SEMPER EST