Ahhh, Porkins. How is it that other than Luke and Wedge, everyone remembers Porkins? Biggs was supposed to be a more significant character, but the editing room took care of that.
Porkins must’ve been a Jedi. How else does he convince everyone that he can actually fit in the X-Wing cockpit? Maybe yet another deleted scene:
Ground Crew: “You’re too fat” Porkins: waves hand – “I’m not too fat” Ground Crew: “You’re not too fat. Go ahead and climb in”
In the Rogue Squadron series of novels, Wedge instructs his squadron to keep their inertial dampeners (or something like that) running below 100%. The idea is that these dampeners completely negate inertial effects of high speed maneuvering, which would otherwise kill any biological creature. He tells them to do this because Biggs had his functioning at 100%, and therefore he couldn’t “feel” how fast he was going and realize that his X-Wing couldn’t pull up at such a high speed.
So it wasn’t that he was too fat, but rather, that he couldn’t feel the inertia of how hard he was trying to maneuver, and didn’t realize that his X-Wing just couldn’t handle it. At least, according to the Rogue Squadron novels.
My buddy sent me the link for the article last week – i forgot to check how the flight made out – too bad it blew up – hopefully they will build a mark 2
That’s really cool.
Poor Porkins.
“I’m too fat?”
I’m sure he’s fine……
(quick, get a field medic droid out to him!)
-Mike from NJ
Lol that was quite spectacular for a complete failure.
Ahhh, Porkins. How is it that other than Luke and Wedge, everyone remembers Porkins? Biggs was supposed to be a more significant character, but the editing room took care of that.
Porkins must’ve been a Jedi. How else does he convince everyone that he can actually fit in the X-Wing cockpit? Maybe yet another deleted scene:
Ground Crew: “You’re too fat”
Porkins: waves hand – “I’m not too fat”
Ground Crew: “You’re not too fat. Go ahead and climb in”
Yes, I’m a Star Wars Geek.
Where’s the “Pull up!” “I can’t do it!” “Stay on target!” “I’m too fat!” reference from?
According to Wikipedia, Porkins actually was too fat!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkins#Porkins.2C_Jek_Tono
“…his weight threw off the balance of the ship…”
“Where’s the “Pull up!” “I can’t do it!” “Stay on target!” “I’m too fat!” reference from?”
Star wars.
“Pull up! ” “I’m too fat!” “Stay on Target!” “I’m too fat! Loosen up!” *BOOM!*
so he really was to fat.. interesting..
In the Rogue Squadron series of novels, Wedge instructs his squadron to keep their inertial dampeners (or something like that) running below 100%. The idea is that these dampeners completely negate inertial effects of high speed maneuvering, which would otherwise kill any biological creature. He tells them to do this because Biggs had his functioning at 100%, and therefore he couldn’t “feel” how fast he was going and realize that his X-Wing couldn’t pull up at such a high speed.
So it wasn’t that he was too fat, but rather, that he couldn’t feel the inertia of how hard he was trying to maneuver, and didn’t realize that his X-Wing just couldn’t handle it. At least, according to the Rogue Squadron novels.
Man, lovely.
My buddy sent me the link for the article last week – i forgot to check how the flight made out – too bad it blew up – hopefully they will build a mark 2
Correction: Not Biggs, but Porkins
…did the D2-Unit survive?