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SPOILERS - Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion and Overanalysis
Kugai:
It was that ol' standby THE PLOT DEVICE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpm79BNB0c
BenRG:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Jan 2016, 22:30 ---Now that I think about it, they never showed the Death Star enter hyperspace. How did it get from system to system? Space is unfathomably big.
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I read somewhere that they made a conscious policy not to show the Death Star using its hyperdrive as it would disrupt viewers' sense that it is moon-sized. Apparently, we have an instinct that big=slow and showing The Magic 8-Ball O' Doom going to lightspeed breaks the illusion of scale.
sitnspin:
Ironically, this destroys the sense of galactic scale and makes the fictional universe feel smaller than it should.
Method of Madness:
That might be intentional to make the coincidences more palatable. Also I think it all takes place in a single galaxy.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2016, 03:11 ---That might be intentional to make the coincidences more palatable. Also I think it all takes place in a single galaxy.
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It never ceases to amaze me just how fast hyperdrive is. The Millennium Falcon (which, admittedly, manages the upper end of FTL velocities, in-universe) goes from Tattooine in the Outer Rim to a core system (a distance of tens of thousands of light years) in a matter of a few hours at best. Even a lumbering giant like the Death Star 1 manages the flight from Alderaan to Yavin so quickly that the Rebels only have a few hours at best lead time to prepare their counter-attack before it arrives in-system.
No wonder so many Warsies rag Trekkers off about their "snails' pace" warp drive! :wink:
Seriously, almost everything about how Starkiller was presented in The Force Awakens was messed up. There were lots of better ways in in-universe technical terms for it to be portrayed. However, there is one thing J J Abrams is good at and that is visual spectacle. He certainly chose the method that looked most dramatic.
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