No, I expect them to abide by "storyworld rules."

This is basic and fundamental: The audience will go along with whatever you tell them, so long as it's consistent. GAME OF THRONES: there are dragons and white walkers but other than that, what you understand about physics and chemistry hold. LORD OF THE RINGS: Sauron is Satan, Wizards have semi-unlimited power, elves are immortal unless proven otherwise. STAR WARS: aerial combat is like WWII newsreels except space ships can fly all the fuck over the place.

That's where things fall apart - you can make "ocean" into "space" if you presume that all weaponry is directional. You can shoot at the "destroyer" because you're flying around going pew pew pew. Lucas just couldn't keep it in his pants and needed to "drop" bombs because fundamentally, his whole vision is carrier warfare. Could he have been satisfied with torpedo "planes?" Yes indoodly doo. But he didn't. He went "some things you shoot and some things fly around but the plane of our performance is whatever the fuck I say it is because I'm George Lucas."

Kinda like how for the first two Star Wars movies he really needed sexual chemistry between Luke and Leia and then for the third movie he decided to have Leia be Luke's sister and the third corner of his Luke Leia Han love triangle. He's just a lazy fuck who gives no shits about the audience.