Hehe, the old movie isn't in continuity with games vs. no there aren't any continuity errors let me explain catfight is rearing again
Just watched Knight's broadsword blowing up again, and I had a thought.
In all Wing Commander games, it takes several seconds to eject. There's generally a warning *ejecting* *ejecting* light and then you launch. If the piece of the battle on screen in the movie (thought not the whole movie itself obviously) is played out in real time, and we've every reason to believe it is (watch it again if you disagree), then there's no way 'Mr. Knight' would have time to reach for his ejector ring and eject in time before his ship disintegrated, like a split second later. He's focused on the battle (albeit wimpering) up until his fighter starts exploding. His ships destruction is an instantaneous process, it doesn't start falling to pieces gently giving him the time he needs to eject. All the fighters in the movie go up pretty much like a tinderbox, so there is no reason the broadsword should be any different. The ship starts exploding, the ship explodes, in an instant in the movie. It happens in under a second. Additionally, he's been given an order to 'steady as she goes' and doesn't report that 'actually i'm not going to steady on course, i'm going to eject' which surely he would be compelled to do if he was going to leave his wingleader all alone. He also yells a death cry as his ship disintegrates. The sound cuts out as his ship disintegrates.
The one thing above all this that convinces me, is if the film-makers were not planning to kill the character, then they would not have made such an implication of his death.
re: Hunter, how can they be referring to his callsign? Notice on his uniform breast is 'Hunter'. Everyone else has their surnames, implying that that's his surname.
Now it's been argued countless times whether the movie is intended to fit into continuity with the games. If there was a definite answer then it wouldn't be so recurring an issue. My personal opinion is that when Chris Roberts said he wanted 'a new image' he decided it was to be a movie based on the games in general, and not a tie in to the games and the novels (one thing is certain, he didn't go through the movie with a fine toothed comb looking for continuity flaws), hence:
-They called the carrier the 'Tiger Claw' (why why why? What's wrong with Tiger's Claw? Coul the cgi not handle apostrophes?),
-made Angel english, when she is very very, very french in the games
-implied Bossman's death (there is clearly no hope of his being alive as far as the other pilots are concerned),
-included skipper missiles (which captain eisen describes as 'a new technology' in wing commander 3),
-makes Paladin french/belgian and a commodore (didn't Shotlgass say he flew with him off the claw before?),
-make Angel the Wing Commander on the Claw instead of Colonel Halcyon,
- made Hunter the guy's surname and not his callsign,
- made Blair not a rookie by the time of Wing Commander, and actually the hero of mankind already,
- made torpedoes the required capship-killing weapon, when in Wing Commander you can quite conceivably take a cruiser out with a couple of mass driver guns or even lasers, hence the ships and guns in 'Victory Streak' being around 10x more penetrative than in Claw Marks. Actually this is an issue for me, since action stations has torpedoes etc. and that's ages before 2654. I always figured some sort of technological advancement in the 10 years between WC1&WC2, and all the old ships like the victory got upgraded armour and shielding or something. Any explaination would be cool.
- navcomp a.i. and the implication that Kilrathi ships were somehow incapable of navigating certain jump points, or even jump points at all (it's ambiguous). I don't know where to start about how wrong this is. The Kilrathi in action stations seem pretty 'oh it's easy to get to earth we just go here la la la we'll be there in no time'.
-obsolete ships have on board talking computer merlin. I guess that makes sense because they were always overriding the silly thing. I'd bin it.
-Pegasus station guy reporting 'one million bogies'. What?? Exaggeration maybe but eek.
I really feel that Roberts was using his artistic license and was just focused on making a good film (whoops) that draws from bits of all the games. But this is just my opinion. It's like Christian fundamentalism vs. Christian liberalism, with relation to infallability of holy scripture. A liberal will argue that something's inconsistent, and the fundamentalist will find a way to explain it using a few stretches of the imagination, and decides that that has to be the truth, no matter how unlikely it is because "scripture has to be perfect" (I tear my hair out at these responses. People are slaves to millenia old personal agendas in my opinion. But that's not being discussed). In the end there's no way of being definite either way. But where this differs from scripture is that we're not arguing about ficticious events (cue someone saying 'actually that doesn't differ from biblical arguments mate' yeah whatever), so it's totally prone to interpretation. Believe what you like and all that, deep down it's just fun, and none of us are in authority to decide what is official or not.
The way I see it, the games are the Old Testament, the books are the New Testament (some don't follow/care about them) and the movie and movie tie-ins are like the gnostic gospels or something i.e. stuff that didn't get in the canon for whatever reason but was still followed, and cause lots of divides.
rant over.
cue cries of '**** off lurker!' and 'you've gone off topic'
Ok to stay on topic my favourite seen was um...Paladin blowing up the big battlewagon.
i'll get my coat