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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I remember sitting in the theater for Force Awakens. I remember the last preview finished, and I had a sense of excitement, because I didn't know what would happen. It wasn't based on a book or comic, it could be anything.

Then I watched A New Hope, but worse.

I understand it's scifi, but the stupid planet laser is one of the dumbest things Ive ever seen. Was the beam faster than light? Did it go through hyperspace? How'd they focus the laser at stellar distances? Is it a super weapon because it can destroy a couple planets or because it can shoot a mega laser beam through hyperspace or snuff out a star? Idiots.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That, and the bombers in space in The Last Jedi.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have no problem with the bombers.

    From a functional design it works. There's artificial gravity inside the bomb bay and once they fall out of the floor they will continue in space on their inertia.

    From a style point of view it works. Space battles in Star Wars was always a love letter to world war 2 dog fights. They are planes in space, not space ships. Always have been.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The love letter to dogfights thing doesn't excuse complete stupidity. I'm not expecting Babylon 5 level of good space battles, but at the very least they could have treated it as a "escort the torpedo boats" fight and not a "bombing ground targets but in spaaaaaace". Some one should have taken one look at the script/plan for that scene and said, "No, that's stupid."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What about the lasers with bullet drop in the same movie?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not familiar with that.

    Important to recognise they don't shoot lasers in Star Wars. Their energy bolts have mass.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honest question then - would the relatively small rebel (resistance?) ships have enough mass to generate a gravitational field that would have affected those energy bolts? Because they're in the vacuum of space IIRC.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Star Wars is first and foremost a fantasy series, not proper sci fi. Again, I don't know the specific thing being referred to here, but this is a film series where people with magic powers fight with swords. Things that look cool take precedence over things that make scientific sense.

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