how much time elapsed between new hope and return? I feel like they could have been on hoth for awhile. Yeah they barely had the fighters setup for cold but with the base and finding hoth and such it could be years. Then between empire and return you have a whole bunch of offscreen stuff. Luke makes his own saber and seems to have done some sort of self training given how good he got (maybe more with yoda but it did not sound like that when he speaks with him). It was implied lando had to find where han was taken and stake it out and the whole plan had to be figured out and implemented and they knew he was safe sitting as a decoration. I mean that could be over a year or years as well.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The issue isn't the time required to build another one, just that it's weird to see the same "big evil thing to destroy" two times in a trilogy.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean they used it and it worked pretty effectively the first time. Like if someone had destroyed our nuke stockpile after hiroshima I think we would make more or if like the first carrier had been sunk but the concept proved effective I think we would make another.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago

The weapon makes sense, it's just a bit uninspired from a story telling perspective