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What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"We've almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!" The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment.

"Senator Amidala is in a coma. Even if she recovers, she will never be the same and may not live long." But no.... George had to have his god-damned funeral scene, even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher's most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ, as well as one of the more intriguing OT lore dumps.

Bonus points if a scene was scripted or filmed and got cut.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do you think he was flying around the earth for kicks? No, he was using a gravitational slingshot to build speed. Granted, they could have explained it better, so I guess a line like "we need to use the turn of the world to speed up our satilites, and we still can't match his velocity. Imagine how fast he'd be." But less clunky, of course.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

That's not how gravity assist works. You need relative differences in speed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Someone once explained it that watching the earth spin backward was not him flying so fast that he literally dragged the Earth in reverse but rather that the Earth spinning backward was a byproduct of our third party view watching time go in reverse because Superman was traveling back in time.

But he would have to literally be stronger than the sun to do that because the only way you can travel backwards in time is to travel faster than the speed of light.

But it's movie magic so what can you say?