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Making your spaceships operate on WW2 dogfight logic is definitely cool lol
Fuckin CinemaSins brained dorks lol
Star Wars was never supposed to be hard scifi and even as a kid I may have wondered about the trench run, but I realized the movies would've been much worse without explosions in space.
I know now that the real reason for it is that Lucas liked a similar scene from The Dam Busters.
That's what I respect the most about him, like a true nerd he got to mash together all the stuff he liked and make a lot of money doing it.