Spoilers You ever feel bad for those unknown crew members during space battles?
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The scene in "Into Darkness" when the Vengeance blows a bunch of Enterprise crewmen into space after it blasts a hole through the side of the ship was particularly disturbing. I had never before considered the effects of warped space on a human body before, and I shudder to think what the implications might be. Hopefully they'd be dead before they knew what had happened.
That might hit closer to home than you imagine. SMU found a linear earthquake that squares with the passage of a strangelet or a tiny black hole. It went right through the planet…and the tidal forces would be like getting hit with the ice warrior/Master’s tissue compression gun.
Yes, always. I remember feeling particularly terrible about a shot in Wrath of Khan where two crewmen are walking in a corridor, we cut to the outside where I think the ship takes a hit to the "neck" section, then back inside we see the corridor and those two guys engulfed in flame. I don't really understand why one wouldn't feel bad for them.
Yeah, even if they are fictional characters and no one really gets hurt it's not fun to know how many lives were lost in some explosion or something like that.
I feel the saddest for the poor crew of the NX-01 getting spaced after Enterprise suffers massive damage in battle on the way to stop the Xindi. There weren't that many on the ship to begin with. They were explorers who gambled hopefully that they could save Earth. The crew they left behind couldn't afford the time to grieve them. And they must have been tightly bonded within the confines of the small ship. And their specialties were likely irreplaceable. Star travel was new to them...and now their bodies drift lifelessly in the unimaginable space among them...
I actually do feel bad for them. I generally feel bad for the various extras in movies and TV shows that get killed (though it does depend on the movie/show). Somehow it can get me worse than when a named character dies.
That's also why I really don't like "everybody laughs" endings for episodes where people died.
And why I had to give up reading X-Men comics after decimation. With that many characters dead, especially children, I just couldn't continue with the narrative, especially since the deaths were eventually pretty much forgotten in-universe (which, yeah makes sense, you can't constantly have the characters grieve, but still)
That's also why I really don't like "everybody laughs" endings for episodes where people died.
And why I had to give up reading X-Men comics after decimation. With that many characters dead, especially children, I just couldn't continue with the narrative, especially since the deaths were eventually pretty much forgotten in-universe (which, yeah makes sense, you can't constantly have the characters grieve, but still)
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