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[–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My favorite nitpick in the phantom menace is in that scene.

In the Cinematic release, and I think the VHS release as well, the Tusken raiding party here is using Slugthrowers, a weapon primarily only used against Lightsaber wielders since it can't be deflected like a blaster bolt.

When it was re-released for DVD it was changed to a Red Blaster bolt. Personally, I think it makes more sense for the Tusken people to use slugthrowers, since they have access to everything they need to make gunpowder on Tatooine (guano from caves, hydrocarbons from the black fruit sugar), but to attain blaster gas they need to trade with the Settlements, something they prefer against.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Wouldn't just a light sabre incinerate a slug?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    There was a sith, former apprentice of Vader in the good canon version that used a weapon that was like a cat o nine tails but it used both energy and normal metal components and jedi had a very hard time dealing with it, other than Luke, which the good canon had progress into a powerful Jedi that could even force project an image of himself without dying, but also valued his friendships and connections and didn't briefly consider killing his own nephew and would have never fucking gone into hiding as a hermit instead of dealing with the problem he created.

    Anyways, this devolved a bit into a fuck Disney rant, but the point was that someone using a weapon that combined lightsabre blades with metal blades was extremely effective against jedi just using lightsabres. Luke could only handle her because he was a beast with and without a lightsabre.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure they could raid some here and there. Considering Tattooine is Outer Rim and considered dangerous, I wouldn't be surprised if the villages or homesteads they raid would contain some.

    Of course, this would make the use here a bit weird but maybe they used the blasters for fast moving targets? I image they'd also attack smaller caravans of speeders or something, and for those a slugthrower might not be fast enough.

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