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Backstory 63: Battle-Snake Shake

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Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

These bikes must have pretty strong engines if harpoons would work well enough to hoist the coaxium car. If these are anything like the speeder bikes in Episode VI, I’d expect there would need to be a minimum of half a dozen just to lift it off the rail and I only counted 5 so far.

It’s also a bit odd that the bikers don’t seem to be shooting at the hauler or at the trio on the train. I’d expect blasters to be used at the very least to up the risk of exploding the goods. Then the airbike gang would be like bandits on horses swooping in! The attempt at running Han and Chewie down, while definitely lethal to the target, also feels like something that would damage or destroy the airbike as well. Gang members being suicidally aggressive doesn’t feel quite right for Star Wars stories; more like something out of a Mad Max movie.

Transcript

Rio: Nest has come to snake our score from under us!
[SFX]: zeeow! zeeow!
Enfys Nest: Harpoons ready! Move in!
[SFX]: zeeow! zeeow!
[SFX]: Pow! Pow!
[SFX]: Zeeow! zeeow!
Beckett: It’s scoundrel versus scoundrel! No taking cover this time!
Jim: Chewie and I leapt to the sides of the train to avoid being run over by an airbike!
[SFX]: Zeeow!
Chewbacca: Well, this is going just swimmingly.
Chi’ra: Oh, I’m sure we’ll get into a lot worse situations in the future!
Chewbacca: That reassures me no end.


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