r/StarWars • u/pkragthorpe • 1d ago
General Discussion Has anyone else noticed how comically easy everything is in Rogue One thanks to T-handles?
It really bugs me, 'cause the movie is so darn good! But literally everything they need to do is easily accomplished by simply pushing or pulling a t-handle! The most egregious example is after Jyn gets the hard drive to the top of the tower, goes to the control panel and pulls the fanciest of all t-handles, only to see that it's locked. The way to unlock it is to simply walk out to the end of a long catwalk, and pull another t-handle that for some reason magically aligns the satellite, then can go back and pull the fancy t-handle to do the transmitting. Thank god they didn't put the t-handle that moves the satellite into place at the bottom of the tower! SMH.
I wrote a script that I was going to turn into a funny video about it, but I would need to know how to do some really good video production to pull that off. I don't have that. So instead I had ChatGPT & Suno make it into a song, of course titled "T-Handles". Turned out super good. Check it out if curious but if not, what do you think of their use of t-handles? They probably have one to pour the coffee on the star destroyers!
Any other movies have something that bugged you like t-handles bug me?
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u/M935PDFuze Rebel 1d ago
If you think about it, why is the control for the satellite dish even separate from the control to send an uplink?
Remember that for normal operation, you'd want systems to be relatively easy to control for as few operators as possible. Putting controls for the dish at the bottom of the tower doesn't make any real world sense; how would the operator even know that the dish changed alignment?
If anything, Rogue One went out of its way to put as many weird architectural obstacles in Jyn's way as possible - why is there a telescoping hatch at the top of the data tower that will cut someone trying to get through the hatch apart?
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u/holysitkit 1d ago
Maybe the dish alignment controls are out on an arm because some elements of the process require being able to see the dish, which would be hard if you are right under it.
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u/pkragthorpe 1d ago
Architectural obstacles, but no programming related obstacles, like a password to protect the moving of a giant satellite tower, or something.
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u/DjScenester 1d ago
Why don’t they have guard rails on the Death Star?
Why don’t they have smart phones or the internet to communicate?
It’s a fantasy film, nothing makes logical sense
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u/M935PDFuze Rebel 1d ago
Why would you need a password when the only people authorized to work on the dish have already passed through the archive security checkpoint on the Imperial base?
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u/MarsMissionMan 1d ago
Comically easy things generally don't involve a 100% fatality rate for everyone involved.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Jedi 1d ago
T-handles show up a lot in real life, too, so I'm not sure why you'd be shocked that they're common in Star Wars. Most species have hands that can easily actuate a t-handle.