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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9106961" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>Fire warning shots and then, if necessary, shoot it down. Just like the US Navy would do (and has done) if a vessel keeps approaching without permission.</p><p></p><p>To illustrate why I think the opening of episode 1 was such a miss, compare it to a scene that is functionally very similar, but inverted: the opening of <em>Star Wars</em> (I will never call it "A New Hope"). In the original, the rebels are obviously woefully outgunned; this is apparent from the moment their tiny ship flies across the screen in a moment and the Imperial Star destroyer takes about 12 hours to do the same. But they put up a dogged resistance, with Leia doing what she has to and going down fighting, while the captain dies rather than spilling the beans to the terrifying Vader. Right away the audience knows that the Empire are not to be messed with, but that our heroes are resourceful and clever. The audience is immersed.</p><p></p><p>Here, the Rebels (now New Republicans, I guess? - I don't like it, sounds political) are in the massive ship with the numbers advantage and just come off like total chumps. So the audience takeaway is not that the bad guys are terrifying, but that the good guys are weak. It was the equivalent of a pro wrestling squash match. You knew <em>exactly</em> how it was going to play out from the moment the captain said, "I'm going to call their bluff" (my spouse, who <em>never</em> talks during shows, actually said "what an idiot" out loud). And from that moment the audience is no longer in the story - we're more like the audience of a horror film, knowing that the teenager is about to die but watching for the voyeuristic thrill and hoping for an inventive kill (it wasn't).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9106961, member: 7035894"] Fire warning shots and then, if necessary, shoot it down. Just like the US Navy would do (and has done) if a vessel keeps approaching without permission. To illustrate why I think the opening of episode 1 was such a miss, compare it to a scene that is functionally very similar, but inverted: the opening of [I]Star Wars[/I] (I will never call it "A New Hope"). In the original, the rebels are obviously woefully outgunned; this is apparent from the moment their tiny ship flies across the screen in a moment and the Imperial Star destroyer takes about 12 hours to do the same. But they put up a dogged resistance, with Leia doing what she has to and going down fighting, while the captain dies rather than spilling the beans to the terrifying Vader. Right away the audience knows that the Empire are not to be messed with, but that our heroes are resourceful and clever. The audience is immersed. Here, the Rebels (now New Republicans, I guess? - I don't like it, sounds political) are in the massive ship with the numbers advantage and just come off like total chumps. So the audience takeaway is not that the bad guys are terrifying, but that the good guys are weak. It was the equivalent of a pro wrestling squash match. You knew [I]exactly[/I] how it was going to play out from the moment the captain said, "I'm going to call their bluff" (my spouse, who [I]never[/I] talks during shows, actually said "what an idiot" out loud). And from that moment the audience is no longer in the story - we're more like the audience of a horror film, knowing that the teenager is about to die but watching for the voyeuristic thrill and hoping for an inventive kill (it wasn't). [/QUOTE]
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