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That, and the bombers in space in The Last Jedi.
I have no problem with the bombers.
From a functional design it works. There's artificial gravity inside the bomb bay and once they fall out of the floor they will continue in space on their inertia.
From a style point of view it works. Space battles in Star Wars was always a love letter to world war 2 dog fights. They are planes in space, not space ships. Always have been.
The love letter to dogfights thing doesn't excuse complete stupidity. I'm not expecting Babylon 5 level of good space battles, but at the very least they could have treated it as a "escort the torpedo boats" fight and not a "bombing ground targets but in spaaaaaace". Some one should have taken one look at the script/plan for that scene and said, "No, that's stupid."
What about the lasers with bullet drop in the same movie?
I'm not familiar with that.
Important to recognise they don't shoot lasers in Star Wars. Their energy bolts have mass.
Honest question then - would the relatively small rebel (resistance?) ships have enough mass to generate a gravitational field that would have affected those energy bolts? Because they're in the vacuum of space IIRC.
Star Wars is first and foremost a fantasy series, not proper sci fi. Again, I don't know the specific thing being referred to here, but this is a film series where people with magic powers fight with swords. Things that look cool take precedence over things that make scientific sense.
Erm actually it's super heated plasma bolts which still have mass and are affected by gravity. At long range a noticable drop is still possible.
No cause those were cool