Spoilers Captain Marvel - Grading & Discussion
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I assumed it was fasterer so that the refugees could put themselves out of reach from the regular FTLs. Otherwise, I just kinda rolled with it.
Maybe it has something specifically to do with it being a Tesseract powered FTL drive. An FTL engine with an unlimited power supply would certainly be something to get the attention of the galactic powers.
The FTL Drive Mar-Vell created was powered by the Tesserract's energies, which means it doesn't need to use the Jump Gate Network like most others do. So it can go places the Kree can't.
That males perfect sense, but they probably shouldn't have been calling it "the light speed engine" in that case.
My experience has been that anyone marveling at how a position is written in Martian instead of English when it plainly isn't, is usually someone who is offended at getting caught. Don't know what you're guilty of, but I'll probably forgive you, so don't sweat it.
It's the difference between taking the train (jump gate) where you have a choice between getting off at stations miles or hundreds of miles apart, and driving (FTL) where you can go directly wherever you want.
If the Skrull were using jump gates, the Kree could, and probably do, monitor and guard each gate.
Three points about "light speed engine" versus the gate system?
First, in between the gates is largely empty space, which is not where you really want to be. In space travel, the engineering is all about the journey, but, oh, yes, the point is all about the destination.
Second, the thing about a jump gate system is that somebody has to go around putting up the gates. In Babylon 5 it was more advanced species. The Kree are supposed to be the more advanced species, which makes you wonder where they come from.
Third, the many hours it takes the Kree to get to Earth from the nearest jump gate may seem like forever in movie time. In the physical universe, unless the Kree are starting from somewhere in the Oort cloud (technically already in the solar system,) the Kree are using a FTL system anyhow. So, no, it is entirely unclear what difference a "light speed engine" makes. Even if the real Annette Bening wanted to give the Skrulls an upgrade, she could have just given them what the Kree were already using. SF always uses fictional science, but there is badly written fictional science, and "light speed engine" is badly written.
But in the even the "light speed engine" really is a McGuffin, which doesn't really matter save to be fought over. The significant, dramatic choice for Captain Marvel is whether or not to help the Skrulls. Since the Kree have been lying to her, it's a no-brainer. This makes her story rather undramatic. The Supreme Intelligence sets her up to meet the Skrulls; the Skrulls restore her memory; of course since there is no possibility of losing, she can turn on the Kree. There is very little agency to her story. Fortunately for her, the Kree are her simply enemies, as she cannot defeat them without the plot armor. It's almost as bad as The Matrix, when Neo just comes right back to life, because.
First, in between the gates is largely empty space, which is not where you really want to be. In space travel, the engineering is all about the journey, but, oh, yes, the point is all about the destination.
Second, the thing about a jump gate system is that somebody has to go around putting up the gates. In Babylon 5 it was more advanced species. The Kree are supposed to be the more advanced species, which makes you wonder where they come from.
Third, the many hours it takes the Kree to get to Earth from the nearest jump gate may seem like forever in movie time. In the physical universe, unless the Kree are starting from somewhere in the Oort cloud (technically already in the solar system,) the Kree are using a FTL system anyhow. So, no, it is entirely unclear what difference a "light speed engine" makes. Even if the real Annette Bening wanted to give the Skrulls an upgrade, she could have just given them what the Kree were already using. SF always uses fictional science, but there is badly written fictional science, and "light speed engine" is badly written.
But in the even the "light speed engine" really is a McGuffin, which doesn't really matter save to be fought over. The significant, dramatic choice for Captain Marvel is whether or not to help the Skrulls. Since the Kree have been lying to her, it's a no-brainer. This makes her story rather undramatic. The Supreme Intelligence sets her up to meet the Skrulls; the Skrulls restore her memory; of course since there is no possibility of losing, she can turn on the Kree. There is very little agency to her story. Fortunately for her, the Kree are her simply enemies, as she cannot defeat them without the plot armor. It's almost as bad as The Matrix, when Neo just comes right back to life, because.
Die anyone ever say, the Lightspeed Engine affects the travel speed of the ship?
Maybe it‘s named like that based on it‘s efficiency and operating speed/principles.
Maybe it‘s named like that based on it‘s efficiency and operating speed/principles.
Not in so many words, but Talos says several times that having such a ship would allow Skrull refugees to get beyond the Kree's grasp, implying that the ship is far faster than the gate technology.
The engine could be a new type like the difference between steam and internal combustion, or it could be something a smaller ship could use to create a jump point that only the large cruisers with massive engines can do sort of like ships in B5?
Gov Kodos has the most sensible explanation but it's pretty much all based on stuff not actually on screen. Fanwanking done right!
Corporal Captain is I think right. Again, Yon-Rogg didn't use a gate to get to Earth as I recall (fading from memory rather quickly I find.)
he Nth Doctor forgets the Kree already have FTL, which is presumably how they go around setting up gates.
Corporal Captain is I think right. Again, Yon-Rogg didn't use a gate to get to Earth as I recall (fading from memory rather quickly I find.)
he Nth Doctor forgets the Kree already have FTL, which is presumably how they go around setting up gates.
Except we don't know if the Kree actually set up those gates.
It was probably a network made by The Eternals.
That's actually what I was thinking by taking a page from Babylon 5 and say they were built by one of the "Old Ones."It was probably a network made by The Eternals.
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