For Independence Day, people complain about Jeff Goldbloom’s Mac being able to connect to the Aliens’ computer system. It is stated that the government had been reasearching the aliens’ computers and technology for quite some time, and either heavily implied or stated outright that they had been reverse engineering it for years to advance their own tech, so it seems quite reasonable that it would be possible to at least create an adapter for the Mac to connect to the aliens’ computers, even if you don’t assume that Steve Jobs has simply been leveraging stolen alien technology to turn a profit in the movies’ universe.
Now I’m picturing Bill Pullman as President Whitmore and Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson in a “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” commercial. Mac can connect to alien computers to upload a virus to disable their security! PC lobs missile volleys at the alien ship instead.
But the fact that Marty refuses to race with that guy at the end of Part III means that these future selves will be completely different from the future selves we saw.
I thought the “official” bit of wankery was that there’s a black hole cluster during the Kessel run, and most smugglers make an 18 parsec run, with the added distance being due to avoiding the cluster. Han, being a daredevil, took a shorter, faster 12 parsec route and is basically bragging that he’s enough of a crack pilot to be able to safely navigate the black hole cluster without issue.
I certainly think that. I think most fans certainly think that. I’m pretty sure most of the fan-wankery is “look, George Lucas had no idea wtf he was talking about, but we’re just going to finagle an explanation so Han doesn’t look like an idiot.”
I’ve never heard of this “plot hole,” but the one I have heard of is that if 2015 Biff gave the Almanac to himself in 1955, then he couldn’t have returned to the same 2015 that he was from, and that Doc and Marty were in. But it was already established in BttF I that changes to the time stream don’t happen instantaneously.
Hell, after pushing his dad out of the way of his grandfather’s car, Marty lived a whole week before starting to fade away.
So? The end of Part I means Marty’s whole 1985 family is completely different from the 1985 versions we saw at the start of part I, too. But we still saw them before the timeline was changed. Marty refused to race AFTER he’d seen his future, and in large part BECAUSE he’d seen his future, so he changed it, hopefully for the better. We never got to see the new versions because he never went back to 2015 to see them. But in 3 years, I’ll look him up and ask how it went, right after I rehydrate dinner and take a ride on my hoverboard, wearing my self-lacing sneakers and self-drying jacket.
Timestream changes are a ripple effect of probability waves crashing on distant shores. It’s explained pretty eloquently in the first Back to the Future when Marty fades out of existence as it (temporarily) becomes less likely that his dad will land his mom.
I saw Walter Koenig at a convention in 1989. In it, someone asks him this question, about knowing if Chekov hadn’t met Khan. His response was, "Well, at the time it happened, I knew that Khan and Chekov hadn’t interacted. I thought about bringing it up and telling them that Khan and my character hadn’t met. I also knew if I did that, I would have a much smaller version in the movie. So, I thought about what I wanted to do, help the continuity or have a bigger part in the movie?
"Well, you know my decision . . . "
Hilarious!
I have to catch up with the rest of the thread but I do enjoy it. I also wonder about the line between “logical assumption” and “plot hole” in terms of movies.
Bolding added. Yes, they make clear in the movie that the people of Naboo elect their queen. However, 17 is not pre-pubescent. 17 is the heart of puberty. Practically post-puberty for some girls.
Yes, it still is pretty nuts.
Correct.
It is clearly stated that she serves 2 terms as Queen, and then is no longer eligible, and thus is replaced by the new teenage girl who gets elected. But she is then elected as Senator for Naboo, on the basis of her popularity and hero status.
Read what I said again, yes they did air the original pilot - after they had aired all the other episodes that they showed and canceled the series. I heard they actually had to refilm parts of it, as it was dreadful, but I have no cite for that (and would actually appreciate one). “As aired” means the order it was aired.
Because Han is a loud braggart and Obi-wan is clearly thinking “Great, I’m going to have to put up with this clown the whole way.”
[Ooh, oooh! I know the answer to this one! ~waves arm~ Call on meeee!]
Because George Lucas didn’t know what a parsec was, and Han Solo didn’t know… but Obi-Wan did.
(so Sir Alec was communicating, with one brilliant eyeroll, both “I have to spend how much time traveling in a spaceship with this yahoo?” AND “I have to spend how much time working on a movie written by that bigger yahoo?”)
The pilot of Firefly was aired without any changes. What you’re thinking is Whedon’s next show, Dollhouse. Fox did demand changes to that pilot because it was so awful (it’s included on the season one DVD, so you can see for yourself that the execs were right) and Whedon ended up creating an entirely new start for the show.
