Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[Paul Farquhar]

Oh my I haven't - though a Concorde at Atlantic-crossing speed would be too high for a MANPADS (and also too fast for some older missiles if fired from behind). It'd be easy enough to hit on descent or ascent though. Wow that movie was a big hit in 1979 and I've never even heard of it. It even had Alain Delon in it!

Oh, you really should look it up. It's so awesomely bad it's great! The missiles Concorde dodges are more like ground launched cruise missiles though.

 

[Gammadoodler]

Commercial aircraft follow air traffic lanes. Busy star systems could have their own air traffic control systems, with monitoring stations in the vicinity of the outer planets. As the most massive body in the solar system that is not a star, Jupiter makes a natural navigation target.

It's troublesome to analogize interstellar navigation to terrestrial navigation. Terrestrial landmarks' relative postions are static with respect to one another. This is not the case with planets.

Consider the initial premise here, that as a function of "standard system entry protocol", a starfleet vessel could have just been fine with an incorrect planet count "because some of them might have been on the other side of that system's Sun".

The same circumstance could happen with
Jupiter-based monitoring station with respect to Earth. What good would such a station be if for some large chunks of time, it could not even see Earth because they're on different sides of the Sun?

 

[Dioltach]

Consider the initial premise here, that as a function of "standard system entry protocol", a starfleet vessel could have just been fine with an incorrect planet count "because some of them might have been on the other side of that system's Sun".

At the very least, I'm sure the first thing you do is look at distance to the sun.

 

[Ryujin]

If you can travel at near light speed, in system, then I imagine it would make far more sense to approach from 'above' or 'below' the ecliptic. Less to hit and less need for their "navigational deflectors" to come into play. As to Star Fleet vessels always seeming to pass Jupiter I would expect it would have something to do with checking in with Jupiter Station, or a base on one of the moons, for reasons of navigating set orbital waypoints. Sure, planets and moons move, but their orbits are well charted. The Ceti Alpha 5/6 thing just seems lazy, to me. I suppose it could be somewhat hand-waved as the system having been only cursorily mapped, which would explain why Reliant had to go there when looking for a suitable planet for the Genesis Device test.

 

[trappedslider]

okay a cartel leadership guy who took an FBI agent hostage with a bomb, then once he is finally caught proceeds to put bounties on the FBI agents who arrested him should be moved out of his maximum security prison and into supermax...well he should have been put into a supermax anyway...

 

[Zaukrie]

Every time someone picks up a paper cup of coffee they just got, the damn cup is empty. Every. Damn. Time.

 

[payn]

The soft pack of cigs troupe. I mean, I'm guessing when you pull the last one you are going to know it. Though, its so common in the film and TV to check for that last smoke, crumple the pack in your hand when its empty, and toss it away with disgust. Doubly so after they just climbed out of the river/pool/shower etc. I mean, do you really expect your cigs not to be destroyed after a plunge? Though, for me (ex smoker) its as emphatic as watching someone yawn.

 

[GreyLord]

May have been mentioned before...

The Last Jedi - So...you have this Resistance/Rebel Fleet (and throughout the movies they can't make up their mind whether they are called the Resistance, or are Rebels) that is fleeing from a Fleet of First Order Starships. Now, despite the fact that the First Order could simply hyperspace a bunch of ships to all sides of the three Resistance ships and do a pincer movement...they don't...but this isn't what I'm really griping about. It's that they never think about using all their smaller shuttles and hyperspacing a few hundred people away. I mean, Finn and Rose did it going AND coming back. If they can go and get back without getting noticed, surely you could do that with others as well.

They could go in all sorts of direction and then gather back together later.

But NOOOO...instead they have to have some convoluted plan to simply ship everyone at slow speed to a close by planet they get to. Even if they hadn't been noticed...

How long until their one last remaining ship runs out of fuel or dies off and then the First Order goes...hmmm..where could everyone have gone? Well...there WAS this ONE planet they went by...

Yeah...Stupidest plan...EVER.

And demoting the guy that blew up a ship that would have taken you all out. You should have promoted him to admiral after you found out your entire fleet was "somehow" being tracked (tracking device anyone...or didn't anyone ever watch...I mean read the history manuals...from Star Wars a New Hope???). If he hadn't destroyed that Dreadnought they would have destroyed all 3 of your ships shortly thereafter when they came out of Hyperspace after tracking you.

But wait, it gets even BETTER! They have this supposed battle before their base at the end. Those little Air speeders (Salt SpeederS?) do absolutely NOTHING. They don't fire weapons, they don't shoot, they don't do anything but get shot at and destroyed? Why were they even out there in the first place if they don't do anything except fly around? It makes zero sense that they were out there to get shot at if they don't do anything.

Was the only plan to RAM things and hope that their fragile frames blow those items up? Cause that didn't even come close to happening.

And finally, we get to the end, where a man dies...simply for looking at the Sun? I mean...was it that he sent an illusion of himself so hard that he DIED???...apparently of sweating to death or something?

It's never explained and makes no sense. It's like the director just wanted to kill some character off or something just cause...because it makes no sense to me why that guy died. It pops out of the blue for no reason, though he did seem to be sweating a lot. Maybe he slipped or something (looked like he was levitating, so I have a hard time thinking he slipped and bonked his head...but even if he had you could have had him say owww or something to tell us something happened).

 

[payn]

May have been mentioned before...

The Last Jedi - So...you have this Resistance/Rebel Fleet (and throughout the movies they can't make up their mind whether they are called the Resistance, or are Rebels) that is fleeing from a Fleet of First Order Starships. Now, despite the fact that the First Order could simply hyperspace a bunch of ships to all sides of the three Resistance ships and do a pincer movement...they don't...but this isn't what I'm really griping about. It's that they never think about using all their smaller shuttles and hyperspacing a few hundred people away. I mean, Finn and Rose did it going AND coming back. If they can go and get back without getting noticed, surely you could do that with others as well.

They could go in all sorts of direction and then gather back together later.

But NOOOO...instead they have to have some convoluted plan to simply ship everyone at slow speed to a close by planet they get to. Even if they hadn't been noticed...

How long until their one last remaining ship runs out of fuel or dies off and then the First Order goes...hmmm..where could everyone have gone? Well...there WAS this ONE planet they went by...

Yeah...Stupidest plan...EVER.

And demoting the guy that blew up a ship that would have taken you all out. You should have promoted him to admiral after you found out your entire fleet was "somehow" being tracked (tracking device anyone...or didn't anyone ever watch...I mean read the history manuals...from Star Wars a New Hope???). If he hadn't destroyed that Dreadnought they would have destroyed all 3 of your ships shortly thereafter when they came out of Hyperspace after tracking you.

But wait, it gets even BETTER! They have this supposed battle before their base at the end. Those little Air speeders (Salt SpeederS?) do absolutely NOTHING. They don't fire weapons, they don't shoot, they don't do anything but get shot at and destroyed? Why were they even out there in the first place if they don't do anything except fly around? It makes zero sense that they were out there to get shot at if they don't do anything.

Was the only plan to RAM things and hope that their fragile frames blow those items up? Cause that didn't even come close to happening.

And finally, we get to the end, where a man dies...simply for looking at the Sun? I mean...was it that he sent an illusion of himself so hard that he DIED???...apparently of sweating to death or something?

It's never explained and makes no sense. It's like the director just wanted to kill some character off or something just cause...because it makes no sense to me why that guy died. It pops out of the blue for no reason, though he did seem to be sweating a lot. Maybe he slipped or something (looked like he was levitating, so I have a hard time thinking he slipped and bonked his head...but even if he had you could have had him say owww or something to tell us something happened).

Well, to be fair to the OP these are supposed to be nitpicks that dont ruin the movie but... My favorite one from Last Jedi is the ships running out of fuel, but somebody has to be behind the wheel when the first order blows them up. Im not sure why the ship cant be simply abandoned and that it requires a person to fly it to their death other than to make a boring ass movie seem dramatic.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Look, if we're going to nitpick the sequel trilogy, Morrus is going to need a bigger database.