RAR wrote:I was watching a review and it made me realise the relationship of Kylo Ren is supposed to be a surprise - considering I was not actually looking for spoilers and still found that out months ago - I'm a little shocked that more people didn't know that going in.
I'm a bit disappointed that JJ is so ignorant of how light travels still.
I've been trying to figure out where the hell Spock was supposed to have been standing when he saw Vulcan in the sky large enough to appear a a moon sized object - it seems he arbitrarily made Vulcan have a a 3rd Co-Planet we'd not really heard about before. even though Spock made no mention of dumping Kirk on a Planet "Near" indeed in Vulcan space.
Not to mention what happens to the black hole like effect once it's eaten Vulcan does it suck in the rest of the 40 Eridani solar system in too it over time ?
I suppose the funny thing is that modern telescopes and clever physics can likely prove how many planetary bodies 40 Eridani has around it if not now then pretty soon.
So someone send JJ a High-schoolers text book on planetary science already!
And if Spock had been on a planet close enough to Vulcan for it to be THAT large in the sky (closer than Earth to Luna) then it too would have been, at best, flung out of the system into space by the sudden gravitational shift, at worst destroyed from the fallout.
And then in Into Darkness there was the Enterprise zipping back and forth between Earth and Q'onos (on the opposite side of known space) in two minutes, tops.
And, most annoyingly, Into Darkness has a half-hour standoff between the Enterprise and a Mystery Ship WITHIN ORBIT OF EARTH. You would think any of the other ships we saw in the fleet in orbit of Earth earlier in the movie would have come to investigate their flagship being attacked. That's like if someone was beating a secret serviceman to death in the back yard of the White House and NOBODY notices!
There's dumb action movies, and then there's just insulting the intelligence of your audience with failing at
grade school science. It's why I considered "Kill the Moon" and "In the Forest of the Night" from Series Eight of Doctor Who to be the worst episodes ever.