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Originally posted by Ilander:
Mr. Mopery, I was actually very pleased with the part about them landing the piece of the ship on that 12 mile long runway...it showed that Lucas put some thought into what kind of structures the planet of Coruscant, in order to protect it citizens, would HAVE to have...
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Huh? How could this have been a necessary protective measure? It's not like you can point (half of) a crashing ship in the direction of a runway. I'll concede the idea that Anakin is supposed to be 'the best pilot'. But if he's the best, what about the rest? How would they crash in just the right way--enter the atmosphere at the right angle, manage (without being able to turn) to land in the exact direction of a runway?
All spacecraft take off vertically, right? And this episode took pains to add the scenes with mid-atmosphere traffic filling the skies of the planet. So the presence of a long runway like that seems anachronistic and added just to advance the plot. I agree that there would need to be safety measures, but a long, straight runway isn't going to help an out of control ball of flaming metal entering from an undetermined point in the atmosphere. Unless they had hundreds of thousands of such runways, but the planet seems pretty packed and I'd imagine real estate is expensive...
Too logical for a Star Wars movie, I know.