Darth Lars
Master Member
The deflector shields should be activated protecting the Falcon against direct impact... but, no, I didn't notice any shield shimmer either on Jakku or on the Starkiller base planet.
Am I REALLY the only one disappointed with TFA?
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crabra comander
Master Member
Has their ever been a shimmer? during shootouts it just looked like laser explosions
Jaitea
Master Member
The first thing Fin gets/reminds Rey to do once flying the Falcon was to get the shields up,....the Falcon couldn't fly in atmosphere at speed without shields as the friction would rip the dish & greeblies off,......so when Han ripped through the trees & skidded on the snow the Falcon was well wrapped up & protected,.....well ...to a limit......the lower turret & underside were not damaged at all
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Video game physics, perhaps by design to overlap with game products.
jhazard
Sr Member
No, I was only funning with the name [emoji6] believe me, I am the last person to have a go at someone on grammar. I have a hard enough time on a regular keyboard. Get me on a phone or tablet and its a wonder i can type my nmae. [emoji106]
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What's that ? Some people didn't like 'The Force Awakens' ?
Awesome, totally awesome. Good for them.
More Star Wars for me.
More new DVDs, more new action figures, more new comic books, more new costumes and more new props. More for me to enjoy.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Awesome, totally awesome. Good for them.
More Star Wars for me.
More new DVDs, more new action figures, more new comic books, more new costumes and more new props. More for me to enjoy.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Zombie_61
Master Member
See? Phony baloney technology explains everything. I might as well have been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. :lol
I dated a gal who was a nurse. Every time we watched ER, she would roll her eyes and proclaim what the correct procedure would be. Pilots do the same when we see CGI/film aerodynamics that look off.
Ill go watch it again during a matinee to pick up on all the things that I missed. I did catch the Training Remote on the falcon though.
ghostryder
Legendary Member
Lol, I worked on that show for 8 seasons - I can't even tell you about the endless CRATES of mail we'd get about what we we're doing wrong...
Boy do I get it Willie, 99% of the watchers will never know the mistakes. I used to just nudge her and tell her to pipe down. I also have to tell myself its a space ship and doesnt fly like a real plane haha.
Almost all SW ships just have engines that point backwards and that's it. No control surfaces for in the air, no reaction control system for in space.
The Y-Wing did have little fins in the very back of the nacelles, the snowspeeders did have some speed brakes that seemed to help turn them.
Other than that, no hint of how they could do anything but obey Newton's third law. But that is a sin of many many Sci Fi vehicles.
Hell at least Star Trek added a RCS system to the Enterprise for the movies.
SW gets a pass mostly, it's not hard Sci Fi, it's another animal. Magical force field technology help steer, act as heat shield and mimic atmospheric flight in space because... well because. But the MF taking ground strikes and no damage is sort of pushing it.
The Y-Wing did have little fins in the very back of the nacelles, the snowspeeders did have some speed brakes that seemed to help turn them.
Other than that, no hint of how they could do anything but obey Newton's third law. But that is a sin of many many Sci Fi vehicles.
Hell at least Star Trek added a RCS system to the Enterprise for the movies.
SW gets a pass mostly, it's not hard Sci Fi, it's another animal. Magical force field technology help steer, act as heat shield and mimic atmospheric flight in space because... well because. But the MF taking ground strikes and no damage is sort of pushing it.
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Marv
Sr Member
Not even the aliens at Roswell got away with that one
joshvanrad
Master Member
Maybe that's their fault for flying some crappy spinning disc instead of the Millennium Falcon.Not even the aliens at Roswell got away with that one
Satxer
Sr Member
*puts on nerd glasses and adds stereotypical rhaspy prepubecent nerd voice*
Uh actually, if you go back and watch the movie again, you will notice that the "information about the Death Star super weapon", is actually a map to Luke Skywalker. If your gonna be a nerd, at least get the facts straight.
Brevin Din-Shay
Sr Member
Exactly.
Brevin Din-Shay
Sr Member
Zombie_61
Master Member
I have a good friend who is a former firefighter/paramedic/EMT, and he would groan audibly every time he saw a truly botched medical procedure in a television show or movie, then proceed to explain every little thing they did wrong. I finally had to stop watching stuff with him. :lol
darth_myeek
Sr Member
Regarding ships with "just" rear engines. When in doubt, the answer is repulsor lifts. The sonic screwdriver of Star Wars locomotion.
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