Ever notice how the entire Star Wars saga is dictated by the actions of one Star Destroyer commander?
Right after R2D2 gets the data from Princess Leia, he and C3PO get into an escape pod and fall to the nearby planet, Tatooine. As they’re falling, a trooper on the Star Destroyer spots the escape pod and moves to destroy it.
However, a commander orders him not to fire, “there’s no lifeforms, must have short-circuited,” he remarks. So they let it plummet to the planet. No big deal, right? His reasoning, it seems, is that the pod is empty so there’s no point blowing it up.
The problem is that if they had simply blown it up -just to be on the safe side- the entire saga couldn’t have happened.
If they had taken the shot, R2 and 3PO would have been destroyed, along with the Death Star plans. Even assuming there’s another copy (although it doesn’t seem likely) if the two droids hadn’t made it to Tatooine, hadn’t found their way to Luke and then to Obiwan, there’s no way he would have seen Leia’s message. Luke would have probably stayed “another season” perpetually and never found out who is real father was.
So all this brings us to the conclusion that the entire Star Wars saga is based on the decision of a single Imperial Officer who’s assumption that the pod “short-circuited” single-handidly brought down the Galatic Empire.
Just sayin’.
