Friday Afternoon Videos: You’re all clear kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!
May 22nd, 2009 at 01:49pm Will Pfeifer
Just to wash that bad taste of that Jar-Jar Binks montage out of our heads, here’s the Death Star run from the original STAR WARS. I’ve seen this clip more than any other movie sequence, and it still works. Part of that is because, unlike subsequent space battles, we know who the good guys are, we know who the bad guys are, and we know what the objective is.
And part of it is because it’s Luke Skywalker using the Force to blow up the Death Star! C’mon — it doesn’t get much better than that!
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1. Jerry | May 23rd, 2009 at 4:31 am
Wedge owns all. Any clip with Wedge is a winner. He…
- Saves Luke from being killed by a TIE fighter during the first Death Star attack.
- Is the only X-wing pilot to survive BESIDES Luke from the first Death Star attack.
- Is the pilot of the first Rebel snowspeeder to take down an AT-AT during the Battle of Hoth. (”Good shot, Janson!”)
- During the attack on the second Death Star, Wedge leads the ships into the core and destroys the power regulator on the northwest tower, allowing Lando to destroys the core, and ultimately the Death Star itself.
Bad Ass. If I had ever become a fighter pilot I would have wanted my callsign to be Wedge.
In a related clip, here’s the real reason why Porkins was probably the WORST pilot in the rebellion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPI54fOWoo
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