What's up with that hallway of LASER WALLS?

DS615, your fascination about the laser walls is starting to sound misguiding.
WHY CAN'T YOU JUST ENJOY THE MOVIE?!!
Don't make things complicated.

That's my advice.

 

I'm not facinated by them, and in fact I think they're just plain stupid. I'm just opposed to people assigning them attributes they clearly don't have.

The whole idea of them exploding isn't mine, it was introduced in this thread. So why is everyone treating it like a fact?

 

Why are you treating the concept that they wouldn't explode as if it was fact?

 

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Fine, you call them stupid. Whatever.
That is SLIGHTY ignorant- just because you don't get an answer about the purpose of these walls doesn't mean they are stupid.

They exist because it brings extra tension to the climatic duel. Obi Wan can only watch how his Master dies. These forced fighting breaks are a tension element and they work really well.

P.S.: Hope I wasn't to rough being rude. If so, sorry.

 

Up.

 

They are a plot device, used to seperate our heroes so that one of them can die.

 

I thoguht they were there to prtect from heat and radiation from the genterators deep inthe planet, the tubes we see in the hallway.

George Lucas made them to speratae the heroes.

 

I thought it was neat that they absorbed lightsabre blades, or did they bounce off? Then, Qui-Gon turned off his blade immediately and knelt down to meditate, obviously knowing what the walls were for and what they could do while Maul is standing there going "duuuuh".

 

I think the laser walls make as much sense as the Falcon being guarded by less then 10 stormtroopers in the the bay of the Death Star, ANH, or there being a sloping floor at the end of Luke's fall in ESB, with a vane so he doesn't plummet to his death. However, I don't hold any of those creative decisions for their respective movies as mistakes or just for the plot and otherwise stupid, I just sit back and enjoy the story.

 

None of that ever really bothered me...the only thing I thought weird was that when you see the outside of the hangar, it's perched on a medium-sized cliff...but yet you go through a door and into the power station, and it's massive. Where did all that space come from? It's like Snoopy's doghouse or something...

 

I guess Maul is as big a varmint as they're gonna get.

Does this mean that there is a little bit of Maul in a certain batch of Naboo ships?

 

I thought it was a security system, designed to detain intruders for awhile until the guards could arrive. In this case, the guards were otherwise engaged.

 

From the Star Wars Fact Files:


The pit that Maul falls down was the generator core of the plasma purifying facility. The highly charged and toxic waste products of the plasma extraction and power generation process were treated there to make them safe. The core consisted of a series of high energy particle coils that transformed the dangerous slough into harmless gases and particles.

Plasma activation can result in potentially lethal energy outputs. The laser gates were intended to limit the damage these random outputs might have, operating at the first sign of a surge. Immensely sensitive, the doors often opened several times in just five minutes.



I think there are six gates, the engineers apparently built them as a reference to Naboo mythology where chaos is held back by six gates.

 

I think it was the 7 gates that held back all chaos. Might be six though, it's been a while since I have been to the Naboo Library.

 

HAHAHAHA

Darth Maul became a Naboo starfighter

 

Does it annoy anyone else that in the laser wall room it takes obi-wan kenobi (who has the force) so long to get to his master and the sith?? And that the walls are open longer for qui-gon and maul then a shorter time for obi-wan?? Stoopid.

 

It was supposed to bother us. In the first duel between Qui-Gon and Maul alone, he was getting his ass handed to him until he made a break for Amidala's ship ramp. With Obi-Wan at his side Maul was still toying around with them quite a bit. So every second it took Obi-Wan to regroup with Qui-Gon added tension to the possiblity that Maul would kill Qui-Gon.

Some people think Obi-Wan should have been using his "force run" like he did in TPM, but here he had just been kicked down several stories, and then jumped back up several stories. He would have had to rest first before he could use another burst of Force energy.

The reason the doors open at different intervals is because they are set up to open and close as there are impurities built up in the air in the molten pit room.

What's "stupid" about it?

 

Must we contemplate the exact use of the laser walls? They were simply a cool way to seperate our two heros and give them a little rest, while building tension at the same time.

Plus since Obi-Wan is stuck behind the wall and must watch as his Master dies it makes it all the more tragic.

 

Yeah, but if you are the kind of person who can't just roll along with it, there has been an explaination made for them.

 

"Does it annoy anyone else that in the laser wall room it takes obi-wan kenobi (who has the force) so long to get to his master and the sith??"

1) Obi-wan was tired, 2) he already used the force to jump back up to where Qui-Gon and Maul were fighting so he couldn't exhaust himself any further, and 3) he feared that he'll either overshoot the walls and fall to the pit or be incinerated by the walls if it closed early.

"And that the walls are open longer for qui-gon and maul then a shorter time for obi-wan?? Stoopid."

I think Maul used the force to close the energy walls so that Obi-wan wouldn't rejoin with Qui-Gon.

 

But why do the doors open at all? No-one hits any controls to open them.

Still cool though.

 

Yes, its a plot device, but I hoped GL would have made it a sensical environment. To me, the Naboo ship hanger next to a power reactor with multiple fenceless bridges next to a melting plant is an abstract sketch. With more time, I'm sure it could have been sensical. It is similar to analyzing an id software 3D shooter map - no function, just abstract architecture for maximum playability.

A plot point that is also in this catagory is Maul getting cornered on the reactor core platforms. He had plenty of room to manuever and many escape routes, but he chooses to stand with his back to the chasm instead. He isn't even cornered, really. With a quick hop to his left, he'd be on the large platform again. It only makes sense if you want to show off his back flip.

This is not to say I don't enjoy the entire movie - its one of my favorites. Its just these environments have no semblence of reason behind them... other than plot devices.

 

Funny, this all makes solid sense to me.

 

Like the Deathstar trench it was there so that one thing could happen. The trench for the rebels to use to destroy the DS and the laser walls to seperate QGJ and OWK so QGJ could die.

 

Moving to PT forum.