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TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months agoOne of the best in terms of realistic space physics.
I can’t stand how they always show spaceships flying directly towards things. It’s like, that’s not where you would be burning to get there, and if you’re getting close you would be pointing the other way and burning retrograde, or else the Millenium Falcon is just going to crash straight into Yavin IV. The other one is stuff “falling out of orbit”, which makes little sense. If your orbit brings you into the atmosphere there’s not much you can do but ride through it and hope you don’t lose too much speed to not come out of it again.
The one exception is the moon. It just so happens that if you’re in low Earth orbit you burn as the moon rises in front of you, then your apoapse will stretch out to the moon for an intercept with it further along its path.
ringwraithfish@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm like that a lot too with anything in space, but Star Wars clicked for me when someone reminded me it was fantasy in space, not science fiction. Ahsoka really leaned hard into the fantasy and keeping that in mind helped me with suspension of disbelief.
In other words, Star Wars technology is so different and advanced, we might as well consider it magic and not question when it goes against our normal understanding of physics.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah exactly, Star Wars is very light on the science part of scifi. Ahsoka was pretty boring though imo, I actually got GOT season 8 vibes from it - not from the writing so much (although it was a bit weak), but the way everything seemed so excessively choreographed. It’s like every step, every position, every arm fold is directed, leaving no room for the actors to actually act.
But yeah, Star Wars gets a pass for being cool. Ad Astra annoyed the hell out of me, though, every rocket was going straight up from one place directly to another.
ringwraithfish@kbin.social 11 months ago
I enjoyed Ahsoka mainly because it built on the more fringe themes from Clone Wars and Rebels (the witches) and continued the Rebels character's stories. I agree though that the choreography was pretty stilted. Maybe it's a side effect of filming in the infinity stages they've been doing most of these shows in... lower budget, or maybe less room for standard camera angles, who knows.
I had to Google Ad Astra, that's how little it had an impact on me, lol. I remember seeing it in theaters, and the moon cowboy chase, but that's about it.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You don’t remember the space gorillas?!