they had a call. they could make it look the same (or close enough) as ANH or they could make it more dramatic an visusaly stunning. they chose the latter.
Starkiller in Episode VII was probably one of the most horrifying ones, as you probably would've thought it'd just kill one planet, but no, it would kill an entire system.
Newsflash: the ST is not canon in my eyes, it's someone's horribly bad fanfiction in movie form, with very inconsistent writing and massive plotholes too!
@@Foebane72 I don't say it's canon either. George didn't make it, he definitely doesn't care for it either. Then again he didn't make rogue one, but I consider it canon. Well, if it's good star wars then it's canon for me. And the only good star wars disney made for me was rogue one and andor.
They didn't. The Death Star superlaser can vary in intensity. From single reactor ignition that only targets the surface of a planet, to full power ignition that can completely obliterate it. It being just built by the time of Rogue One meant they stuck to the weaker laser to test it. Alderaan was the first time they, as Tarkin put it in A New Hope, demonstrated the full power of the station.
I think they messed up a few things because in the version of Episode 4 I watched, the center super laser module never fired through the center cross over of the outer beam emitters. In Rogue One the center emitter fired (despite being the same station, in Episode 6 the second death star actually did make use of the center emitter). (edit, yeah my point stands, I thought this video had a newer edition or something with the center emitter going off but it doesn't)
The Death Star was always scary just for how strong it was but something about it move into place to fire make it even scary, especially when its blocking the sun
The moment where the Death Star has eclipsed the planet's sun (like our Moon does), and the superlaser blast shoots downward from it, is very reminiscent of a "bleeding moon" imagery that recurs in media for a representation of death. Only here it's the sickly radioactive green of poison and technology, rather than the red of blood. Stunning use of symbolism. It's one of the times when you can really pin down the directorial genius that made Rogue One such a masterpiece of a film.
In A New Hope, I noted that the Death Star was a simple instrument of empire. However, in Rogue One, being a film more focused on the reign of empire and oppression to the lowest rebels, It feels a greater threat, just as the atomic bomb has been since the 1940s.
They didn't discharge the full reactor capacity into the super laser emitters. No need to destroy the whole planet when you just need to wreck the information dump.
There are proposals to use either high powered lasers or laser-coupled particle beams for asteroid defense, there are two main issues with it, firstly space technology has stagnated hard since the 90s and is only just now beginning to improve in major ways again, and secondly such satellites could obviously be used as weapons so governments are going to be very wary of deploying them. Unlike nuclear weapons a laser or particle beam leaves no contamination, and outside of building the initial device they cost very little to fire off, meaning that if a war in space were to break out there's a risk that the two warring countries could destroy huge portions of their own and everybody else's telecommunication satellites with ease. This would badly disrupt communication, the major GPS networks, global wifi and thus trade, which would set off economic hardships in many countries reliant on communication to keep their money moving around as it should, etc. Realistically, we've had the technology to build such satellites for years and years, but there is legitimate concern that they could pose more of a danger to than a benefit if misused.
Certainly. However building something of that scale: 1. Is too expensive 2. Damage from asteroids means insurance companies will make a fortune selling insurance against something not likely to happen 3. There's too many dipwads who would use this to wreck the moon just to prove to everyone who doesn't think it actually exists that it does xD
The original version is more powerful and funnier, I mean the planet explodes like a balloon, and in Rogue One they give it more drama than if it remains
Retrospectively, Death Star 1 had the biggest presence and felt like a genuine dread out of all the 3 super weapons in the franchise. Established in A New Hope, elevated by Rogue One and even Andor. It is the OG and definitive super weapon that left a long lasting legacy in the franchise and what followed can never match the impact it has.
I think the visual of the death star eclipse to be one of the most beautiful shots in star wars. a beautiful omen of incoming destruction. imagine the people seeing this on jeddah. they look up to see the eclipse before a flash of light and death. absolutely beautiful and terrifying
Laser pointer, laser cat toy, barcode scanner etc you can see them all. Death Star lasers use Kyber Crystals so they are coloured like lightsabers are.
А сейчас принцесса Лея, приступим к массовым расстрелам. В смысле?😮 А вот сейчас жахнем из космоса из нашего МЕГА лазера, и всех разом расстреляем. Но вы принцесса не волнуйтесь, вас после тоже в расход пустим😅
I know the sound design has already been applauded for decades, but gahddamn the original power up and discharge sounds *soooo* good. It never gets old.
Comparing rogue one to A New Hope is like comparing excrement to cream. And for all those in the comments saying that the more recent effects are superior - you see, sweethearts, back in the day, when our brains weren't so addled by technology, we had this thing called an IMAGINATION. This allowed us to fill in the blanks. To willingly suspend our disbelief. To IMAGINE - if you will - that a planet destroying laser beam could appear as a vibrant green and that a titanic explosion really resembled the fiery conflagration of an entire world being ripped asunder. Unlike you witless dullards of today we didn't have to be spoon fed every detail, we could close the gaps with our minds, didn't have to have every single nuance, plot point or discrepancy subjected to the most minute scrutiny lest our puny brains turn in on themselves resulting in a tantrum that wrecks your parent's basement. These comparisons also detract from the achievement of a struggling VFX team who had few resources and had to invent several visual effects techniques because they didn't even exist. For that they, quite rightly, won the Oscar in 1978. How many academy awards has your saintly rogue one (I really wish I could spit) swept up? Oh that's right... NONE! Perhaps it should be renamed rogue NONE!
Mate, please don't be a snob who thinks that just because these old special effects that were painstakingly hard to do as well as mind-blowing and revolutionary at the time that they're infinitely better than anything else that came after, because honestly, some of them look a bit archaic. Also, insulting everyone else for thinking Rogue One looks better is frankly unnecessary and only makes YOU look like the one throwing a tantrum for what is ultimately just fun action movies. Your whole text is just you throwing a fit because you just don't like Rogue One and seemingly hate everyone who does. So frankly, if you have nothing of value to say just don't say anything and stay quiet.
but why should separate streams come out? But even if it were, these should continue on their trajectory, not merge into one. This doesn't make any sense
We call that hyper advanced physics. Also with the beams converging in such a way you can change the trajectory of the shot by mending the cone of fire. Also, these are kyber radiation beams, not normal lasers. Light saber beams collide, why wouldn't these?
The reason why it's so crazy in Rogue One is because Gareth Edwards (the director) is an absolute visionary when it comes to communicating scale, like you feel viscerally the magnitude of huge things in his shots due to how he frames them. Yeah you're seeing BASICALLY the same thing, but in his movies it FEELS bigger.
Yeah and they didn't shoot to destroy the planet itself just everyone on it. Which also means there were probably some storm troopers that didn't survive
:29 Every time I see this seen I cant help but laugh. Really, is it too much to ask to add guard rails for safety 😂
Never liked how the beams came out at different rates, realistically all the beams should have covered at the same time.
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I wish they had a scene showing the death star coming out of hyperspace
they had a call. they could make it look the same (or close enough) as ANH or they could make it more dramatic an visusaly stunning. they chose the latter.
If the original trilogy was made 20 years later, it would have been a lot better
Starkiller in Episode VII was probably one of the most horrifying ones, as you probably would've thought it'd just kill one planet, but no, it would kill an entire system.
Newsflash: the ST is not canon in my eyes, it's someone's horribly bad fanfiction in movie form, with very inconsistent writing and massive plotholes too!
@@Foebane72 I don't say it's canon either. George didn't make it, he definitely doesn't care for it either. Then again he didn't make rogue one, but I consider it canon. Well, if it's good star wars then it's canon for me. And the only good star wars disney made for me was rogue one and andor.
@@Foebane72it’s is objectively canon but whatever, also George doesn’t even hate them
“I just want a railing, ONE RAILING! Right here.”
Vader and Leia doing a little Father, Daughter bonding time I see 😂
The charging noise really made the Death Star it
I LEFT MY TARGET COUPON AT HOME THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR
Why they made it weaker?
They didn't. The Death Star superlaser can vary in intensity. From single reactor ignition that only targets the surface of a planet, to full power ignition that can completely obliterate it. It being just built by the time of Rogue One meant they stuck to the weaker laser to test it. Alderaan was the first time they, as Tarkin put it in A New Hope, demonstrated the full power of the station.
I bet Disney will make trillions if they made a movie as good as rogue one
I think they messed up a few things because in the version of Episode 4 I watched, the center super laser module never fired through the center cross over of the outer beam emitters. In Rogue One the center emitter fired (despite being the same station, in Episode 6 the second death star actually did make use of the center emitter). (edit, yeah my point stands, I thought this video had a newer edition or something with the center emitter going off but it doesn't)
The Death Star was always scary just for how strong it was but something about it move into place to fire make it even scary, especially when its blocking the sun
Anh way better than ro
The moment where the Death Star has eclipsed the planet's sun (like our Moon does), and the superlaser blast shoots downward from it, is very reminiscent of a "bleeding moon" imagery that recurs in media for a representation of death. Only here it's the sickly radioactive green of poison and technology, rather than the red of blood. Stunning use of symbolism. It's one of the times when you can really pin down the directorial genius that made Rogue One such a masterpiece of a film.
It gives me these Stellaris vibes.
Not even going to lie this reminds me of something Nazis would invent.
The allies made the nuke so there's that
Its based on the nazi schwerer gustav cannon ?
Say what you will about Rogue One's story but the visuals are incredible.
1:35 could be a wallpaper tbh
How long do you think it would take to grow your hair out to get it in buns like that? Assuming she’s not wearing a wig in cannon lol.
In A New Hope, I noted that the Death Star was a simple instrument of empire. However, in Rogue One, being a film more focused on the reign of empire and oppression to the lowest rebels, It feels a greater threat, just as the atomic bomb has been since the 1940s.
Why didn't the death star destroy scarif like it did in a new hope? Instead it's like the atomic bomb
it's not at full power
They didn't discharge the full reactor capacity into the super laser emitters. No need to destroy the whole planet when you just need to wreck the information dump.
Bro Disney dropped Rogue One and then dipped 💀
At least they wont need to worry about job rates
There's a problem on the horizon: there's no horizon
Tarkin: Tenn, do you see that horizon? Tenn: Yes, sir! Tarkin: I don't wan't to. Tenn: Yes, sir!
@@lenzi5119 XDDDD
if somehow we could made the death star in real life, can we use it to destroy big asteroids from hitting the earth?
That would be the best use
There are proposals to use either high powered lasers or laser-coupled particle beams for asteroid defense, there are two main issues with it, firstly space technology has stagnated hard since the 90s and is only just now beginning to improve in major ways again, and secondly such satellites could obviously be used as weapons so governments are going to be very wary of deploying them. Unlike nuclear weapons a laser or particle beam leaves no contamination, and outside of building the initial device they cost very little to fire off, meaning that if a war in space were to break out there's a risk that the two warring countries could destroy huge portions of their own and everybody else's telecommunication satellites with ease. This would badly disrupt communication, the major GPS networks, global wifi and thus trade, which would set off economic hardships in many countries reliant on communication to keep their money moving around as it should, etc. Realistically, we've had the technology to build such satellites for years and years, but there is legitimate concern that they could pose more of a danger to than a benefit if misused.
Certainly. However building something of that scale: 1. Is too expensive 2. Damage from asteroids means insurance companies will make a fortune selling insurance against something not likely to happen 3. There's too many dipwads who would use this to wreck the moon just to prove to everyone who doesn't think it actually exists that it does xD
No need to make it even 100 times smaller than the Death Star. All you’d need is a high powered laser
1:10 "When you first saw halo, were you blinded by its majesty, Paralysed, dumbstruck?"
The original version is more powerful and funnier, I mean the planet explodes like a balloon, and in Rogue One they give it more drama than if it remains
I just love how in Rogue One the Death Star did a solar eclipse before shooting
Single ignition vs full might Single made it more beautiful and and dramatic
Retrospectively, Death Star 1 had the biggest presence and felt like a genuine dread out of all the 3 super weapons in the franchise. Established in A New Hope, elevated by Rogue One and even Andor. It is the OG and definitive super weapon that left a long lasting legacy in the franchise and what followed can never match the impact it has.
I know about the death star 1 and 2 but what is the third super weapon?
@@scaramouche768 starkiller base
Well, maybe thousands of super weapons actually because Disney decided on giving every Star Destroyer a planet destroying laser on episode IX 🙄
I think the visual of the death star eclipse to be one of the most beautiful shots in star wars. a beautiful omen of incoming destruction. imagine the people seeing this on jeddah. they look up to see the eclipse before a flash of light and death. absolutely beautiful and terrifying
Vader was like: "Relax, my daughter"... even tho he didn't know it at the time
If it was realistic u won’t be able to see the laser
Laser pointer, laser cat toy, barcode scanner etc you can see them all. Death Star lasers use Kyber Crystals so they are coloured like lightsabers are.
lol, saw a video about that
Kyber beams are damn near solid, of course you can see them.
Newsflash, Star Wars is a fantasy series lol
@@omarbaba9892 Newsflash, it's science fiction xD
The way holding daughter by Vader is always gentle.
А сейчас принцесса Лея, приступим к массовым расстрелам. В смысле?😮 А вот сейчас жахнем из космоса из нашего МЕГА лазера, и всех разом расстреляем. Но вы принцесса не волнуйтесь, вас после тоже в расход пустим😅
I know the sound design has already been applauded for decades, but gahddamn the original power up and discharge sounds *soooo* good. It never gets old.
In other news, the Twi'lek transport economy has seen a growth of 10% !
Am I the only one thinking those two imperial engineers have cancer from standing next to the laser?
They shouldn't. It's made of kyber crystal energy, and the jedi were fine being around that all the time
The British empire
Comparing rogue one to A New Hope is like comparing excrement to cream. And for all those in the comments saying that the more recent effects are superior - you see, sweethearts, back in the day, when our brains weren't so addled by technology, we had this thing called an IMAGINATION. This allowed us to fill in the blanks. To willingly suspend our disbelief. To IMAGINE - if you will - that a planet destroying laser beam could appear as a vibrant green and that a titanic explosion really resembled the fiery conflagration of an entire world being ripped asunder. Unlike you witless dullards of today we didn't have to be spoon fed every detail, we could close the gaps with our minds, didn't have to have every single nuance, plot point or discrepancy subjected to the most minute scrutiny lest our puny brains turn in on themselves resulting in a tantrum that wrecks your parent's basement. These comparisons also detract from the achievement of a struggling VFX team who had few resources and had to invent several visual effects techniques because they didn't even exist. For that they, quite rightly, won the Oscar in 1978. How many academy awards has your saintly rogue one (I really wish I could spit) swept up? Oh that's right... NONE! Perhaps it should be renamed rogue NONE!
Mate, please don't be a snob who thinks that just because these old special effects that were painstakingly hard to do as well as mind-blowing and revolutionary at the time that they're infinitely better than anything else that came after, because honestly, some of them look a bit archaic. Also, insulting everyone else for thinking Rogue One looks better is frankly unnecessary and only makes YOU look like the one throwing a tantrum for what is ultimately just fun action movies. Your whole text is just you throwing a fit because you just don't like Rogue One and seemingly hate everyone who does. So frankly, if you have nothing of value to say just don't say anything and stay quiet.
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@@roguescorner9042based king
You got issues, dude.
@@roguescorner9042 Top tier reply
Comparing 1977 to 2019. Yeah that’s always an apples to apples comparison
but why should separate streams come out? But even if it were, these should continue on their trajectory, not merge into one. This doesn't make any sense
This is too high technology, we don't understand =)
It's star wars
We call that hyper advanced physics. Also with the beams converging in such a way you can change the trajectory of the shot by mending the cone of fire. Also, these are kyber radiation beams, not normal lasers. Light saber beams collide, why wouldn't these?
This will have a massive impact on Alderaan’s trout population I think
nah, they'll be alright
@@painpega The Alderanian trout would go on to become elite shock troops for the rebel alliance
@@joeysmith8818 Not if I eat them all
thankfully the trout population proved resilient
@@foooosh well shit
“One day this planet will look to you Leia.” Several years before disaster.
rouge one did such a good job of preserving the quality of the original movie
Yeah the battle of scarif is hands down one of the most action packed battles ever
Gareth Edwards is under appreciated by both the Star Wars community and the Godzilla community
The reason why it's so crazy in Rogue One is because Gareth Edwards (the director) is an absolute visionary when it comes to communicating scale, like you feel viscerally the magnitude of huge things in his shots due to how he frames them. Yeah you're seeing BASICALLY the same thing, but in his movies it FEELS bigger.
Just look at Godzilla 2014
@@T-ZillaYT oh I did. For this reason it’s my fave monsterverse movie
Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars of the 2010s and Godzilla 2014 is my favorite Monsterverse movie because of Gareth
The thing that makes the rogue ones Death Star more terrifying is that you see what it’s like to be on the planet while the beam has been fired
Yeah and they didn't shoot to destroy the planet itself just everyone on it. Which also means there were probably some storm troopers that didn't survive