Well, so that's how the entire galaxy at the end of Jedi knew the Empire was beaten.
They must have all seen the Deathstar explode in the sky, too.
They must have all seen the Deathstar explode in the sky, too.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion (HERE THERE BE SPOILERS)
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Well, of course they do. But (under normal circumstances) the person on Takodana isn't going to be seeing anything happening to Hosnian Prime at that instant, because the light isn't there yet.
A similar effect happens in Star Trek Generations when Dr. Soran destroys the Veridian star with his trilithium probe. The star goes dark as soon as the probe detonates, which wouldn't happen no matter how close or far you are when standing on the surface of an inhabitable planet. It should take at least several minutes for the light reaching Soran and Picard to dim, but most filmmakers won't depict the dimming or desruction of a star that way because it would slow down the action and pace of the film.
Similar thing: compare the closing minutes of the film 2010 to the novel. It would have been booooring to watch first Discovery's hours-long burn and Leonov's days long escape from Jupiter before it explodes. That's moviemaking, folks.
Could have, but suddenly looking up to see hyperlasers blowing up planets is likely more effective at generating fear and dread when the characters look up to see it happen, live. Seeing it after the fact on a holoscreen, while having an effect, is not as dramatic.
It is still a dumb thing to see on screen, but I understand the reason for it being there.
It is still a dumb thing to see on screen, but I understand the reason for it being there.
Ugh. Such a downer. SPACE IS SILENT FOLKS.
Can we use science to turn certain politicians into space?
Think that's bad? Turns out most aliens aren't green-skinned women who like to have sex.
Those old science fiction novels were wrong about alien women who tended to wear next to nothing and had a preference for Earth men?
(I seem to recall that Victorian and Edwardian era sci-fi was a way to get sexual content through as it was fictional with aliens, so it didn't have to abide by social norms.)
(I seem to recall that Victorian and Edwardian era sci-fi was a way to get sexual content through as it was fictional with aliens, so it didn't have to abide by social norms.)
Firefly and Serenity didn't have sound in space
That sounds like one of Roddenberry's explanations of Star Trek.
Nor 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Kor
I saw it for a third time, folks! For me, that is unprecedented.
It's hard to believe it'll be on Blu ray in about a month and a half. Remember when we had to wait five or six months (or longer in the case of The Phantom Menace, which wasn't released until the spring of the next year) for a new Star Wars film to come out on home video format?
Or when you had to wait forever for movies to come out on VHS during the 80s. I can't even imagine what it was like before home video!
As for the TFA blu ray, I'll be watching the shit out of that when it is released.
Oh, for sure. My copy of the film will definitely get a lot of use.
