Fatal Flaws in Sci-Fi Films: which ones drive you mad? I'll start it off...

Nwerke said:
Colin, seconding you on Space:1999. For some reason that one never bothered me as a kid. I guess I was too busy geeking out over the Eagles. :)
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Never bothered me either back then, if truth be told, ha, ha...

Just went through the whole series on DVD, geeking out over the eagles more than ever, and actually from a trash point of view relishing all the rubbish in the scripts. Eagles aside, the show's at its most entertaining when some ludicrous impossibility (such as them coming across an old sub-light-powered ship from earth light years from Sol - or a duplicate planet earth or whatever) is brushed aside by Bergman with a flick of the wrist, a reassuring grandfatherly smile, a shake of the head and a line like: 'Ah, John... well... that's the mystery of space...'
 
micdavis said:
How do they get from Hoth to Bespin with no lightspeed?

Solar systems are light years apart.

And they are still wearing the same clothes.
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Geek answer: I know it has often been debated in the EU about a "back-up" hyperdrive that was partly functional, BUT....


....I prefer the thought that they were MONTHS out in space. Han/Chewie sporadically got the hyperdrive up and running for short periods of time, and were making several mini-jumps before the hyperdrive motivator completely blew. By the time they got to Bespin, the Falcon needed major repair work on the hyperdrive unit.

...and since they made no other stops along the way, they were of course wearing the only clothes they had on board. They would have sporadically cleaned them, of course.

...but riddle me this: why did Leia have the SAME Hoth hairdo, all that time later? Unless c3p0 was also an accomplished hair dresser (actually, I could buy that).
 
blewis17 said:
...but riddle me this: why did Leia have the SAME Hoth hairdo, all that time later? Unless c3p0 was also an accomplished hair dresser (actually, I could buy that).
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I just figured that was her 'Action Hairstyle' and she re-fixed herself.

Like when a girl pulls her hair up in a ponytail when she's going to be outside all day at Six Flags or something.
 
I always figured this was the case as well. If not, then Luke got the "boxtop" version of Jedi Training in just a few days. I always assumed it had been a good long while in space and on Dagobah.

-Gary

blewis17 said:
Geek answer: I know it has often been debated in the EU about a "back-up" hyperdrive that was partly functional, BUT....


....I prefer the thought that they were MONTHS out in space. Han/Chewie sporadically got the hyperdrive up and running for short periods of time, and were making several mini-jumps before the hyperdrive motivator completely blew. By the time they got to Bespin, the Falcon needed major repair work on the hyperdrive unit.

...and since they made no other stops along the way, they were of course wearing the only clothes they had on board. They would have sporadically cleaned them, of course.

...but riddle me this: why did Leia have the SAME Hoth hairdo, all that time later? Unless c3p0 was also an accomplished hair dresser (actually, I could buy that).
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Women wearing makeup into battle. And out of battle. Unless we can get some of this future space-age makeup and hairspray that fixes itself constantly even during the heat of combat, I will *always* hate this.

Actually, in regards to the "what can actually happen in outer space" issue, it always drives me a little crazy when people take space walks in suits made out of material, and it just bends and flexes like the pressure inside matches the pressure outside...there's a reason EVA suits are massive and are harder to move in than Batman's cowl.... >.<

That's all pretty nitpicky though.
 
SgtFang said:
Pssssssst! "Reaver Reject" got the boot last night- he was Guy Raz again...

-Sarge
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*****...... will that s.o.b. ever quit?

What was the smoking gun evidence by the way? Former members can be such chameleons and change their online personas so well that most members dont catch any hints of who they are.
 
At least the Falcon had a hyperdrive, where's Luke's? Is it one of the greeblies on the droidstrip? That 'fantasy/fairy tale' genre tag sure helps Lucas out of a whole slew of 'real space' problems!
 
JunkSabers1138 said:
*****...... will that s.o.b. ever quit?

What was the smoking gun evidence by the way? Former members can be such chameleons and change their online personas so well that most members dont catch any hints of who they are.
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Dunno. I "was" getting a bit of a vibe of some kind off him though, but I couldn't figure out why other than that he seemed too comfortable here for such an FNG.

-Sarge
 
Colin Droidmilk said:
At least the Falcon had a hyperdrive, where's Luke's? Is it one of the greeblies on the droidstrip? That 'fantasy/fairy tale' genre tag sure helps Lucas out of a whole slew of 'real space' problems!
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Yes the X-Wing had a hyperdrive. We see all the rebel fighters jump in ROTJ.
 
robn1 said:
Yes the X-Wing had a hyperdrive. We see all the rebel fighters jump in ROTJ.
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That always bothered me that such a tiny fighter would have a HYPERDRIVE that could theoretically take them anywhere in the galaxy... i mean usually you think hyperdrive = big honking power generator to fuel the thing and thus a big ship to support it. Thus it always just made sens, particularly in ROTJ, for the big carriers to hold the fighters within a cargo area with the fighters ready to launch instead of tiny A-wings, B-wings, X-wings, and Y-wings being able to match or outrun the big cruisers.
 
The X-wing is a MASSIVE fighter compared to anything in the prequels; even Ewan-Wan's Jedi fighter with booster ring isn't anywhere near the volume of an X. (And even that ring was only a last-second sop, since some of the licensees were complaining about continuity with Star Wars.)

IIRC the official story is that yeah, the gear is somewhere in amongst the droid strip area.

It's still one of the things I hate about ESB. And I hate even more that in ROTJ - where you finally get to see the big Rebel cruisers - we still see tiny little A-wings making the jump independently.
 
RebellionBarbie said:
Women wearing makeup into battle. And out of battle. Unless we can get some of this future space-age makeup and hairspray that fixes itself constantly even during the heat of combat, I will *always* hate this.
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Unfortunately, this happens here in our own Army.....

And it pisses me off to no end. I rode out of Iraq on a gunship UH60...the crew chief was completely done up and then one of the women attached to my unit was wearing her normal eyeliner mascara and lip stick.

I'm sitting here with a freakin full combat load of ammunition, topped of water, 3 MREs and everything I need, that I spent about 3 hours checking and rechecking, and shes sitting there with 2 magazines a canteen and a compact....

No offense to women in the military, but when you are in a combat zone, your makeup should NOT be something you worry about...at all....EVER
 
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