Comments on: Was Porkins fit for duty?

By: top movie reviews

top movie reviews — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:16:19 +0000

haha the title of this entry made me laugh. seams he may have only been fit for a pork pie haha.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:56:16 +0000

I suspect Porkins may have been a fill-in for another pilot who was sick that day. Perhaps had some bad food at the cantina, a fender bender on the way to work, or just a case of suicide mission jitters. Who knows? They needed a body to fly the bird, and Porkins – whatever training shortcomings he may have had (and I suspect he also probably had food stains on his uniform) at least said “Sure, let’s do it!” and got his fighter airborne.

Besides those limits of pilots ejecting from a damaged ship into space, where was Porkins (or anyone for that matter) supposed to go? Land on the Death Star and wait for a friendly pick-up? Bit of a flaw in that plan, too.

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:15:10 +0000

LOL!

I was oblivious (as usual) when I saw that last youtube screen-shot for Porkins. Huh? Was he really imbibing from a straw-enabled beverage in the film? Had I played that clip while drinking (say, milk) it most certainly would have come out my nose. Mainly because I, too, empathize with all the red-shirts out there. In the sci-fi universe I always knew (and still know) that I would have been the first to get vaporized in the first act. That’s just the way it goes sometimes…

By: Ken Loar

Ken Loar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:45:48 +0000

You seem to have put a lot of thought into the condition of Porkins as an X-wing fighter pilot. I’m thinking maybe he was part on the final kamikaze wave that was being thrown against the Death Star. Not so much a weapon as a projectile.
You do seem to give some credit to the fact that he did not eject. Considering the environment where the X-Wing was made to fight in, we have to really wonder if it was made with an ejection seat, at all. After all they do not appear to wear much more than a flight suit and the cabin seems no different from your basic fighter jet. Explosion or exjection, in deep space, are the survival rates any better for one than the other.