Its been a while since I watched A New Hope but my take on the Vader Tarkin relationship was different. Tarkin was running the operation and Vader was there as the Emperor's eyes and ears and as an advisor. The end of Revenge of the Sith makes it clear that Tarkin & Vader have worked together before and the impression I had was that Vader respected Tarkin to a degree.
When Vader goes to choke the officer Tarkin orders him released and Vader says something along the lines of "as you wish,". Thats a lot different from "yes sir". My take was Vader had made his point to the officers there i.e. don't mess with the man in black and when Tarkin ordered him released he was thinking something along the lines of "ok this is your show we will do things the way you want."
To put it another way its a bit like an Admiral comming on to a carrier/warship as a guest. He may outrank the ship's captain but the Captain is the commanding officer and unless the admiral is supervising him, the admiral may make suggestions and get respect but he is not in charge.
Granted the Captain would not give orders to the Admiral the way Tarkin did to Vader but its the closest example I can think of.
If Tarkin had deciced to take the Death Star to say the capital and try to blow up the Emperor the officers may have gone along with it but that's when Vader's role would have kicked in and no more Tarkin.
When Vader goes to choke the officer Tarkin orders him released and Vader says something along the lines of "as you wish,". Thats a lot different from "yes sir". My take was Vader had made his point to the officers there i.e. don't mess with the man in black and when Tarkin ordered him released he was thinking something along the lines of "ok this is your show we will do things the way you want."
To put it another way its a bit like an Admiral comming on to a carrier/warship as a guest. He may outrank the ship's captain but the Captain is the commanding officer and unless the admiral is supervising him, the admiral may make suggestions and get respect but he is not in charge.
Granted the Captain would not give orders to the Admiral the way Tarkin did to Vader but its the closest example I can think of.
If Tarkin had deciced to take the Death Star to say the capital and try to blow up the Emperor the officers may have gone along with it but that's when Vader's role would have kicked in and no more Tarkin.
Star Wars: The Prequels Strike Back
23/08/2011 05:22:54 PM
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point 4 of the "bad things about the original movies" is kind of weak
24/08/2011 01:07:01 AM
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They'll have to refer to these notes when they remake all of them in 10 years
24/08/2011 04:31:39 AM
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Re: Vader and Tarkin
24/08/2011 04:20:43 PM
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Also, it makes the military guys feel better if they see the chain of command at work.
25/08/2011 01:53:02 AM
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Good stuff. And there are many more. I like the PT better than the OT.
24/08/2011 07:48:19 PM
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I don't want to alarm you, but you might be a monster.
24/08/2011 07:54:17 PM
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Most people I know under age 22 or so prefer the PT. *NM*
24/08/2011 09:07:10 PM
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So the real question is ...
24/08/2011 09:19:51 PM
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I'm 26, but it's pretty close.
24/08/2011 11:46:39 PM
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No offense
25/08/2011 12:10:17 AM
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LOL I don't like Whedon either, and hate Firefly. My nerd friends do not love me. *NM*
25/08/2011 01:37:51 AM
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I'm 38, and I do love the PT
25/08/2011 12:45:11 AM
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Traviss's Mandalorian fan-fiction makes Kevin J Anderson almost tolerable by comparison
25/08/2011 02:11:41 AM
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Ugh Zahn was so boring. *NM*
25/08/2011 04:00:28 AM
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Thankyouverymuchindeed.
24/08/2011 09:04:54 PM
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I tend to consider the prequels to be inferior
26/08/2011 08:41:46 AM
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I still think that James Franco would have been awesome as Anakin
26/08/2011 09:05:48 AM
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I've said that before. And they look almost exactly the same. *NM*
28/08/2011 12:26:29 AM
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It's the Force, stupid.
25/08/2011 02:46:38 AM
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Woah, woah.
25/08/2011 03:26:02 AM
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Yeah Cannoli has trouble letting petty things like reading get in the way of his nerdrage. *NM*
25/08/2011 04:03:56 AM
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You realize if I'd actually sucumbed to nerdrage, he wouldn't have complained?
25/08/2011 07:41:50 PM
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I still remember how much I adored Episode I
25/08/2011 08:05:02 PM
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Probably because the bad guys were analogues of the OTHER Axis powers.
26/08/2011 06:11:07 PM
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