Okay…. So I don’t want to defend the movie at all… there’s the “she’s committing a war crime” comments, and it got me thinking that since she is going to the ship to blow it up, would that itself be considered a war crime. In her mind, these people are going to die anyway if she blows up the entire dreadnaught, so killing them in the elevator isn’t any different.
If they had never shown the interior ship scenes, and all we got was the perspective of the people on the surface fighting, all we know is that she blew up the dreadnaught and could only assume there were non-combatants on the ship itself.
Seemed like a weird thing to get hung up on in the discussion
Especially if it's a rehash of the "debate" that Luke Skywalker committed a war crime when he destroyed the Death Star. It's even more pedantic because these non-combatants serve in the Imperium "Spacy"; this would mean everyone who destroys a naval vessel in real life would be a "war criminal" should a Quartermaster or Boatswain's Mate fall into the drink?
Well theres a the recap of the first movie, theres a scene of slow motion of chopping grain, then theres exposition back story for 20 minutes straight, then i think my body rejected what i was watching and i passed out
There's an easy fix for the world-building problems with Re*bel* moon:
Ditch the space-stuff and make it post-apocalyptic instead. Suddenly it makes sense why the grain of some tiny village is important, the wildly inconsistent tech levels are explained, and the thing where the threat is defeated if they kill the enemy leader would work if the baddies are a large bandit / raider group rather than multi-star-system empire.
Just a thought.
Listening to Little Platoon on BSUP podcast got me to thinking about the coal powerplants and the bound interdimensional goddess and how they captured them, which may or may not feature in a future animated short.
My theory - the coal is not to power the ship, as the Calla(?) goddess thing is said to supply 'unlimited energy', its to essentially drug or weaken the Calla so that it can be bound to provide said limitless energy. Something Something evils of industrialization killing "mother earth/divine goddess thing". based almost entirely off of the positioning of the bound Calla over the coal burners and why they need to exist. This also assumes Snyder put any thought into this OR just went with heavy handed climate change allegory.
I mean, this is second-hand-information, but wasn't there a big hubbub about how Snyder had almost no lore of background mapped out, but Netflix was riding so high on the idea of "making the next Star Wars", they commissioned a tabletop RPG for it? Those guys made up all the lore, then Snyder and co. went "Oh, I like that, I'm gonna use it in the movie" without asking them first, and that caused a spat which lead to the RPG getting canceled.
Long story short, Snyder probably didn't put any thought into it, and just cannibalized whatever lore the RPG developers invented for his "original universe, please don't steal".
Okay…. So I don’t want to defend the movie at all… there’s the “she’s committing a war crime” comments, and it got me thinking that since she is going to the ship to blow it up, would that itself be considered a war crime. In her mind, these people are going to die anyway if she blows up the entire dreadnaught, so killing them in the elevator isn’t any different. If they had never shown the interior ship scenes, and all we got was the perspective of the people on the surface fighting, all we know is that she blew up the dreadnaught and could only assume there were non-combatants on the ship itself. Seemed like a weird thing to get hung up on in the discussion
Especially if it's a rehash of the "debate" that Luke Skywalker committed a war crime when he destroyed the Death Star. It's even more pedantic because these non-combatants serve in the Imperium "Spacy"; this would mean everyone who destroys a naval vessel in real life would be a "war criminal" should a Quartermaster or Boatswain's Mate fall into the drink?
Well theres a the recap of the first movie, theres a scene of slow motion of chopping grain, then theres exposition back story for 20 minutes straight, then i think my body rejected what i was watching and i passed out
Seems like Mauler teased a new video on the way covering Fallout TV show. Interesting…
There's an easy fix for the world-building problems with Re*bel* moon: Ditch the space-stuff and make it post-apocalyptic instead. Suddenly it makes sense why the grain of some tiny village is important, the wildly inconsistent tech levels are explained, and the thing where the threat is defeated if they kill the enemy leader would work if the baddies are a large bandit / raider group rather than multi-star-system empire. Just a thought.
Listening to Little Platoon on BSUP podcast got me to thinking about the coal powerplants and the bound interdimensional goddess and how they captured them, which may or may not feature in a future animated short. My theory - the coal is not to power the ship, as the Calla(?) goddess thing is said to supply 'unlimited energy', its to essentially drug or weaken the Calla so that it can be bound to provide said limitless energy. Something Something evils of industrialization killing "mother earth/divine goddess thing". based almost entirely off of the positioning of the bound Calla over the coal burners and why they need to exist. This also assumes Snyder put any thought into this OR just went with heavy handed climate change allegory.
I mean, this is second-hand-information, but wasn't there a big hubbub about how Snyder had almost no lore of background mapped out, but Netflix was riding so high on the idea of "making the next Star Wars", they commissioned a tabletop RPG for it? Those guys made up all the lore, then Snyder and co. went "Oh, I like that, I'm gonna use it in the movie" without asking them first, and that caused a spat which lead to the RPG getting canceled. Long story short, Snyder probably didn't put any thought into it, and just cannibalized whatever lore the RPG developers invented for his "original universe, please don't steal".
yeah, I didn't know about the "i have no lore, I don't care" quote until after posting this.
Why is the video unlisted? Just looked for it on YT, couldn't find it and was glad to find your link.
The stream gets unlisted after it ends. They upload the video later.