I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

  • @SacralPlexus
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    5319 hours ago

    I remember very vividly when they redid the special effects in the original Star Wars trilogy and added this dumbass ring coming out of the Death Star explosion. It completely broke immersion for me because I was like “wtf is that supposed to be?”

    • @[email protected]
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      1312 hours ago

      You could make an argument that there was some kind of huge spinning gyroscope reaction wheel system on that axis which projected the explosion that way.

      But we all know there wasn’t.

      • @paultimate14
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        711 hours ago

        My thought is that it’s revealing the construction and weak points of the death star. It may have been constructed in two hemispheres that were joined together, and that seam might have been the failure point where gassed were released when the internal pressure got too high.

        Except then we should see the two hemispheres blow out from each other a bit, which they don’t.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 hours ago

          All in all, the film makers had many things they could choose to make the effect look plausible, but they didn’t.

    • @I_Has_A_Hat
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      510 hours ago

      I mean, it might have made sense if it lined up with the equatorial channel that the death star has. If the inside was exploding and that was the weakest area, material would be ejected out the ring first before the rest of the structure exploded. That might, indeed cause a ring effect. But in this scene the ring is going vertically, not horizontally. So yea, doesn’t make much sense.

    • @nepenthes
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      1319 hours ago

      That makes it look all Loony Toons :S