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Star Wars: A Dumpster Fire in Space
I bet you they knew and did it anyway as some kind of postmodern rebellion nonsense.
There can be fire in space...but it doesn't look like that. That's terrible.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/fire-in-microgravity
This does a pretty good job showing what space fires look like.
That was pretty interesting - thanks for posting.
Yeah but how are they supposed to achieve that with such a tight budget. Think of the small indie movie studio!
That's fire without gravity, not in actual space vacuum.
Never skip science day, folks.
You can have a fire in space, but it certainly would not look like that. It would just look more like a torch than a campfire blowing around in magic space wind.
Bust a fuel line and oxidizer line near one another? Sure it can catch fire. That's what a rocket is after all.
Exactly, it's going to look more like an acetylene oxygen torch than anything else.
https://youtu.be/Yjg3ZxMDv_4?si=hfczYZPh47bfN0t7&t=266
If I saw that 18 second clip without the title I wouldn't even have realised it was in space let alone from star wars.
Maybe it's just because I've watched them so much, but I don't think you could take ANY 18 second clip from the Star Wars trilogy, or even the prequels and not recognise it as Star Wars.
This is the real answer. Star Wars was never realistic, but it had a certain feel to it. Most of which was gone in all of the Disney works. They are just generic space movies with a Star Wars title and saying things about the force.
I'm certain shit like this is one of the many filters meant to dissuade anyone who isn't totally zombified from watching. They did this in Mando S2 too, with him somehow making a sublight journey between planets.
I turned off the tv when Lizzo showed up and wouldn’t shut her fat ass up
Star Wars was never fully realistic to science but this goes too far to break immersion.
It's such a dumb thing to 'trigger a main character's memory' scene.
It's reminding her of the trauma of reading the script.
I don't have the words. This shows that human stupidity is truly infinite.
I'm guessing that their excuse is:
"whAT ABout SUn HuH?"
This is a series where they had a space battleship shoot lasers that arced and had a battle scene where a space bomber had to fly in a straight line slowly to drop bombs that fell straight down. It's in the hands of complete retards who don't know anything about anything and hate you because you do.
Gather around the wing fire, padawans! It is time for zero-g space smores!
Clearly the force allows them some breathing room when concerning physics.
Sure, Princess Mary Poppins...
Patrick: "Hey, if we're in space, how can there be a-"
of all the sins that Disney Star Wars has, I've learned to give Star Wars in general a pass when it comes to space physics. I would be more concerned with the terrible retcons, but at this point I have ascended into not caring.
This is not the same kind of problem as WWII dogfight mechanics in space.
Star Wars has had fiery explosions in space since the beginning. the first prequel movie had a fire in the shield generator of a star ship when it got shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfMoXBOjWBM
atmospheric physics in space is just part of star wars's suspension of disbelief.
Still not even the same problem. A whole scene constructed around fire suppression in space is a completely different challenge to suspension of disbelief from a 1-second shot of a fire that's vaguely merged with a spaceship's departure from the atmosphere. Suspension of disbelief depends on audience perception, not on analyzed laws of physics of a fictional universe.
Look, I hate what they turned Star Wars into. I don't like the fact that women took it over and are claiming "oppression" even though they're the ones in power. But, this fire in space bullshit isn't the fight. Star Wars already has a bunch of stupid shit that we let get away with in the past.
EDIT: Looks like I pissef off the FNT fans. If he made the argument that the fire is cheaply done because the director doesn't know what the fuck she's doing then I would agree with him, but his argument isn't that. His argument is "fire in space". It makes us look like we're nitpicking at every single thing in Star Wars. We already have a compelling argument that women have destroyed Star Wars and we should've gatekept the fuck out of it. This argument about "fire in space" is retarded when it comes to Star Wars.
I agree it looks like shit and really really cheaply done.
They already "got away" with dropping bombs in space that require you to be on top of another ship in space. I can't see how they can top that in stupidity.
Didn't they have space horses in the third sequel? I don't know, it's not like I actually watched it. The space pegasuses were cool in Flash Gordon.
If you are going to use a "got away with" example, I don't think you should pick from TLJ. That retarded pile of manure is where a lot of us washed our hands of Star Wars. Mary Poppins Leia is where I "quit". I think the best example is visible laser bolts, although that may have existed beforehand as a scifi trope.
The space bomb dropping started with the original trilogy era tie in games like X-wing and Tie Fighter, the Y-Wing was usually given that bizarre bombing mechanic in any game it appeared in. Depends how much stock you give the EU I suppose.
"Dropping bombs in space" only requires initial propulsion and trajectory, though I'm guessing their setups didn't have any obvious propulsion launching.
When I think about space bomb dropping, I think back to the most powerful warheads available in TIE Fighter. Extremely slow, extremely powerful, though they obviously had some sort of guidance too.
Literally just opened a hatch and the bombs "drop" towards the ship that is "beneath" it.
Lucas had the idea of having them drop bombs like second world war then he realized is retarded and did not do it.
In the last Jedi, someone thought it was a good idea to do that, for what ever reason. I assume diversity hire woman that no one dared to say no to because that would be mysoginistic and is their turn to talk or something.
No.
What about fat Asian butts?
Rian Johnson killed the wrong Tico.
Starwars innovated and set the standard for both special and practical effects. The Death Star exploding in the first movie was something that wasn't even considered before Lucas did it. This crap is just phoning it in.
Why can’t it be the fight? Our enemies show no concern for how petty or meaningless something is when they attack and try to destroy stuff we enjoy. Whats so bad about playing their own game?
Because it gives them ammo to completely tear down our argument and claim that all our complaints are meaningless. I would much rather them die in that fire they created.
People can downvote this completely, but it still doesn't change the truth. Lefties will use any tactic out there to make themselves look better. Even if it means using the older movies to prove us wrong.
What you’re saying makes sense, I just get extremely tired of the same old: present facts, get called a insert buzzword here and be ignored and punished for wrongthink
well they got female behavior correct at least: have an emotional fully-body lockup, forget to do anything useful, mentally masturbate over emotions.
kinda why men have to do these kinds of things. men process the emotions later, when it's safe to do so. it's one of those evolution things. I mean, not all men where this way. but they all died.
I swear there's a scene in the original trilogy where R2D2 puts out a fire on Luke's X-Wing during a space battle and Luke thanks him for it. This is not outside the realm of what Star Wars has always done with regard to physics.