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Radio Free Cyberton is a podcast that was created back in 1999 before there was any such thing as podcasts. It’s about the Transformers shows and toys. What with such a resurgence in popularity since the new movies have come out, it’s got a bigger audience than ever before.
Take a listen to the 10th anniversary spectacular show, featuring the long-awaited part IV to the radio-play parody version of the 1986 classic film, The Transformers: The Movie.
If anyone has seen the film The Negotiator, you know that Kevin Spacey’s character indicates that Shane dies at the end of the film adaptation of the novel, Shane.
Well he doesn’t. He lives in the book, and he lives in the movie too. He’s riding uphill at the end, clearly alive.
So don’t believe what movies tell you, even about other movies.
When I was a kid watching Star Wars, I never understood why Star Destroyers didn’t destroy stars. The Death Star was the super duper awesome new unstoppable superweapon, and it just destroyed planets.
So I guess I figured it was just to be a cool name, an exaggeration of how powerful they were.
Turns out it’s Destroyer type ship, prefaced with Star because it’s in space. Instead of the Fleet, you have the Star Fleet. Instead of a Cruiser ship, it’s a Star Cruiser. And thus the Star Destroyer.
At least that’s what some yabo wrote on tvtropes.org.
On the one hand it makes sense, but on the other hand it still doesn’t. I mean, they housed many fighter craft, so wouldn’t that make them more like Star Carriers?
And apart from Vader’s Super Star Destroyer, and the Death Star, they were the biggest ships. Destroyers are supposed to be lighter armed escort vessels.
And why would Vader’s spiffy prototype ship just be a Super Star Destroyer, if the Destroyer part referred to the class or function?
No, I think I was right after all, on reflection. It’s just supposed to sound all macho.
