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Most gaping sci-fi plot 'hole' which nobody ever mentions spoiler

posted 14 years ago by Vibradiant
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Everybody bitches about the bad dialogue, acting, ideas, etc, but nobody seems to mention the most glaring logical error possibly ever to be seen in a spaceship sequence.

After they blow up the connection to the damaged part of the ship, and Jason punches his fist through the hull, which then sucks whatshername through the jagged metal hole, they close up the airlock and run for the other one at the other end of the ship. Ok, fine.

But then, after Jason breaks down that airlock, and every other one between him and the survivors, WTF happened to the vacuum of space if there is no longer a single seal between them and where he just came from?!?!?

And, as he breaks down each subsequent airlock, they don't even bother to show the depressurization of those compartments.

Really, W. T. F?!?!?

Would it have been that hard to have devised a quick shot of the ship enacting some stop-gap countermeasure like filling the first breached corridor with an airtight super-strong foam or something to account for the sudden absence of the force of nature which JUST KILLED ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS????

I suspect an enormous amount of cannabis consumption accompanied the making of this silly, silly flick.

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[–] Jyveturkey 12 years ago

I thought the same thing while watching it today. It's best to look past it. I honestly can't even think of an explanation.

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[–] Vibradiant 12 years ago

I want to look past it, but it's akin to the kids from another film getting cornered at the edge of the lake, and suddenly being able to breath underwater.

If there weren't easy, cheap fixes available to cover the hole (literally and figuratively), then I wouldn't give them a hard time, but clearly some budget went towards this, and yet somehow this glaring point got past someone.

Just would liked to have been a fly on the wall when the right person noticed.

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[–] BrotherZed 12 years ago

Remember, Jason does not actually run. When no one is looking, he simply teleports. That's how he caught everyone in the previous movies in spite of walking as slow as old people at the mall.

Since he did not actually walk through the airlocks, he did not rupture them.

[–] DSo1976 12 years ago

Actually, right up until part 4, Jason was shown to run quite often. In part 6 when he came back to life, I think that's when he started walking everywhere.

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[–] zwixxx 10 years ago

Jason does NOT teleport.

[–] Line-of-Flight 10 years ago

He does, so says Jason Takes Manhattan.

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[–] Vibradiant 12 years ago

The force of explosive depressurization in an airliner is enough to suck people out of small openings, so at very least, this was much more plausible than the ship retaining life-support after Jason ripped his way aboard.

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[–] Soodinum 10 years ago

In a movie with Jason as a supernatural being, you have no right to bitch about airlocks.

'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

[–] Vibradiant 10 years ago

In a movie with characters previously dying due to explosive decompression, you bet your ass I do.

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[–] zwixxx 10 years ago

On Farscape Moya has the ability to seal a blown airlock/hole via a forcefield/magnetic thingy - as seen in s4e01 (ok it is not Moya, but the ship is of the same type so Moya would be able to do that too). So maybe this ship had something similar going on, OR after Jason broke thru the first time something too big to be sucked into outta space was sucked into covering the hole, thus stopping complete depressurisation. OR one of the doors he broke thru had a second door there for just such an occasion and that one closed to stop the complete dep. OR it was magic :)

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[–] Fuad_Ramses_IV 9 years ago

Just noticed this myself. The writers must not know how outer space works!

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