I love the show, have the first season at home, just have one gripe. Take the WAve Motion Gun, hands down the most powerful weapon ever concieved on tv. So powerful it took them like 3 minutes to power it up. Why did the enemies always stay right in front of it???
"Sir, we are detecting a large powerful build up coming from the Argo."
"In that case Lt, we better stay right here in weapons range and everything will be okay!"
"...insert corny quote here"
Why? Because it build tension. nothing logical of course. If you want to bring logic in to the show then you have to ask why did they make the journey at all? Starsha sent them the plans for the wave motion engine. Shouldn't she have just sent them the plans for the cosmo dna and been done with it?
Try to think like a kid again and it all makes sense and is really cool too!
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Very good. They had time to refit a ship with the wave motion propulsion system, but not to figure out and build a machine vastly more complex than anything they'd ever seen before. Kind of like going to the doctor if you're sick, then waiting till you get your own shingle.
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I love the show, have the first season at home, just have one gripe. Take the WAve Motion Gun, hands down the most powerful weapon ever concieved on tv. So powerful it took them like 3 minutes to power it up. Why did the enemies always stay right in front of it???
Excellent point. A point that really would need to be addressed in a modern movie or series version. In the old series it was always the arrogance of the Gamilon commander that led them to their demise. This was plausible for... many episodes... But in the end, it got to the point where you started thinking, "how are these idiots able to conquer any planets at all with their inept strategy???"
Still, a small point to be rethinked considering the tremendous drama this series was....
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I always assumed that the ship could use "impulse power" (rockets) to change it's direction while powering up the gun. At any rate, the enemy would have no way of knowing when they were powering up the gun or not, and would have no choice but to defend against it. Remember, at least once, the enemy misread the Argo's inaction for it being disabled.
shareI should point out that only twice in the entirety of the first two seasons did they ever shoot the Wave Motion Gun at enemy ships. Usually they used it against large, non-mobile targets like the floating continent, or Gamilon itself. In later films, the power-up time dropped dramatically, so using against enemy ships would be more viable.
-There is no such word as "alot."
I see it all the time in both good and bad TV shows and movies. Some bad guy or idiot in a bad situation tries running directly away from the incoming danger. and instead of moving aside just a little bit to avoid the tree, or Space needle, or incoming fire, they always try to out run it in the same direction of travel and end up getting smushed or blown to pieces. it's just a device to build up drama for the scene.
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