"Something's off with the Turbolaser Shots in the Last Jedi" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Jun 2018 9:12 p.m. PST |
"I HAVE A problem: I can't stop analyzing Star Wars movies. On top of that, there is another issue. I've stated that the physics of a movie doesn't have to be absolutely correct—and I still believe that. And now, I am going to complain about some physics in Star Wars: The Last Jedi even though I said you shouldn't. But first, let me give you a couple of examples of bad physics that doesn't bother me. Consider an x-wing fighter flying near the Death Star. When the x-wing makes a turning maneuver, the space craft banks. Yes, this looks cool because it makes humans think about dogfights with airplanes during WWII. But in space, there is no air—you don't need to tilt the vehicle to change the direction of lift for a turn. Instead, you need to change the direction of the thrusters. Or what about the whole idea of thrusters? In space, there is no air to push against a vehicle. This means to travel at a constant speed, you wouldn't need to waste fuel burning the thrusters. Just turn off the engines and you would move along steadily…."
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| Ghostrunner | 02 Jul 2018 8:58 p.m. PST |
Right or wrong, I think most of the fans that enjoyed this kind of Star Wars physics reverse engineering pretty much gave up after TLJ. |
| Tango01 | 03 Jul 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
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| Ghostrunner | 03 Jul 2018 5:14 p.m. PST |
Glup is right. The people who said ‘hyperdrive doesn't work that way' were among those told to sit down and shut up (and buy some more toys). Pretty much killed a favorite pastime. |
 javelin98  | 03 Jul 2018 8:01 p.m. PST |
The ballistic arcing laser bolts were pretty pathetic. |
| chromedog | 04 Jul 2018 3:44 p.m. PST |
Star wars has ALWAYS been about WW2 dogfights in space, though. NOT about REAL physics. It's space fantasy, not science fiction. It's got wizards and magic swords and bickering peasants rescuing a princess from an evil dark lord. It's like LOTR but done better. #shotsfired (I preferred the older source material that Tolkien "homaged" to his pastiche of them all. |
| chromedog | 15 Jul 2018 3:11 p.m. PST |
My biggest bugbear with it, effects-wise is them bombarding the rebels as they run and the why-the-eff are the shots ARCING at them like arty. |
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