Results tagged “tono” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

We all know that George Lucas famously 'revisited' Star Wars (subsequently rebranded 'A New Hope') with all manner of digital jiggery-pokery.

The screen was literally packed to capacity. Previously where stormtroopers had walked down an empty Mos Eisley side street, it hummed with dozens of tiny robots buzzing around their heads.

For my money, it was rather over the top, and only a couple of the shots were worth doing.

And as for Han shooting first in the confrontation with Greedo....let's just say I agree with certain internet users...

Anyway, one section not touched was the classic bit involving Luke's Red Squadron comrade Porkins. The salad-avoiding X-Wing pilot gets toasted by turbo lasers during the attack on the Death Star.

But now, using the finest technology available to 21st century humanity we can find out why 'Red Six' Jek Porkins (for he has a first name) was unable to 'hold it'.

Yes it's because he'd just been to a space drive through in Yavin's orbit and was trying to polish off a large fries and coke while wrestling with his control column.

And yet! There's more - it turns that Porkins not only has a first name but a middle one also. It's not Jek Jek Porkins in the style of a much loved other SW character, but, in fact 'Tono'.

As someone who's in the film for a time measured in seconds he seems to have acquired an amazingly colossal biography here.

See ya Porkins!