UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net to movies@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago"If the Star Wars movies were a horse." The more I look at this the more true it is.i.imgur.comimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1image"If the Star Wars movies were a horse." The more I look at this the more true it is.i.imgur.comUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net to movies@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square85fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months ago Star Trek was never hard sci-fi, never was. Maybe not, but it was always about fairly long journeys of days, weeks, months, even years. Instant travel removes the core of the experience.
minus-squareFlyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoYeah, but all the movies tend to feature more or less instant travel, even the old ones
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThe more that was emphasized as an actual plot beat, the worse those movies tended to be received. The most fondly remembered ones at least implied a sense of distance and travel time, such as Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country.
Maybe not, but it was always about fairly long journeys of days, weeks, months, even years. Instant travel removes the core of the experience.
Yeah, but all the movies tend to feature more or less instant travel, even the old ones
The more that was emphasized as an actual plot beat, the worse those movies tended to be received. The most fondly remembered ones at least implied a sense of distance and travel time, such as Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country.