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SPOILERS - Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion and Overanalysis
BenRG:
If anyone is interested in a good official explanation for Starkiller, read Alan Dean Foster's novelisation.
It turns out to be that the weapon fires through hyperspace and some of the energy from the attack is continually leaking back out into real space as the attack moves at FTL speeds towards its target. The smugglers' planet just happened to be along the blast trajectory so the waste energy 'afterglow' was visible from its surface.
Foster also gives an interesting official explanation for what Starkiller does that actually sounds a lot more plausible (on a Star Trek - Voyager technobabble scale) than the canon explanation in the film.
Edguy:
That sounds very much like an explanation that was made up after the complaints were made.
Oh no, but you see it works like this!
BenRG:
Yeah but actually probably was with the editors before the final theatrical cut of the movie was complete to allow the right release schedule. In fact, the novel was probably based on a late draft of the script including explanatory exposition that was cut out for runtime reasons.
Gladstone:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2016, 22:23 ---
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 24 Jul 2016, 21:08 ---Abrams clearly has no idea how big space really is.
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--- Quote from: Douglas Adams ---Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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--- Quote from: J. J. Abrams ---Hey, watch this planet explode from the surface of another planet, ain't it great.
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Method of Madness:
It kinda is great, yeah.
--- Quote from: Edguy on 30 Jul 2016, 11:29 ---That sounds very much like an explanation that was made up after the complaints were made.
Oh no, but you see it works like this!
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To be fair, they've been doing that since the beginning with the bullshit "parsecs" excuse, which I still don't accept.
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