Comments by "Smaakjeks K" (@smaakjeks) on "The Critical Drinker"
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@TheFire1290 The problem occurs if in previous movies a technological limit has been specifically mentioned as a problem, which then is contradicted without a word beforehand. The problem is specifically that the audience expects the previously mentioned problem to still be a problem. If the attitude should always be to not have any expectations based on previously mentioned technological limitations, how can you have any sort of tension in a scene? If the possibility is always there that new technology has made something previously impossible possible, then you don't know what is at stake. Which is exactly how I feel with many sci-fi movies (not just Star Wars movies).
If a movie is set today, and the main protagonist is taken to the Gobi desert and left there without a phone, you know the stakes are high. Because you know what limitations there are. In sci-fi, who is to say that there isn't some tiny machine they can fish out of their pocket that creates shelter, food, and water out of thin air? Well, the movie has to let you know beforehand.
So, imagine how much better it would have been if the resistance at the start introduced new cloaking tech that would drastically improve their chances of evading detection in an emergency (thus also giving a nod to previous movies, showing that they take their nerdy audience members seriously). Then later in the movie you get the twist that the First Order have already improved their detection technology to spot ships using the new cloaking tech. Maybe a spy let them know. Then you would create what is known as dramatic irony: the resistance heading into a situation they think they have control over, while the audience knows that this will soon fail. It creates tension. Lots of potential for interesting twists. For example, maybe the First Order staff or guy in charge isn't super well trained in how to use the new tech and this creates hope for the audience. etc etc.
Instead, it comes across like two kids playing space battles.
-Pew pew pew! I shot you, you're dead!
-No, coz I, like, have special shields that keeps me safe from the, from what, from the shots you shoot, and and now pew pew, now I shot you instead!
-No, coz I have special shields, too! Pew pew!
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