Force Awakens - Falcon turret display is wrong?

Author: DougieP
Date: 23-Jun-2017, 10:23 AM

Author: DougieP
Time: 23-Jun-2017 10:23 AM
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Hey,

I hope that I have posted this in the right section. I haven’t noticed anyone else bringing this up (maybe no one cares?), but anyway…I have been watching through the Force Awakens many times as I am working on a Fan Edit. I noticed that the display (the red screen) on Finn’s turret appears to be wrong.

If you watch the whole escape from Jakku scene, it seems like they were using the arrows as an indicator for aiming (which would probably make more sense anyway) but from ANH, arrows actually indicate direction of shots and whether or not they hit their target and where.

The best way to show these differences is in the following two videos.

ANH - 2:25 - The Tie gets hit and an arrow shows direction of shot into the wing and starts to flash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OSeRxhGOY

TFA - 2:17 - Finn hasn’t fired a single shot and there are arrows flying around the screen in different directions
TFA - 3:09 - Arrow Moves to Ties center and stops there. It hasn’t been hit by Finn, suggesting that its where he is aiming.
TFA - 4:15 - Arrow moves to center of Tie and starts flashing like crazy, showing Finn that he now needs to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sarFZJl3h0

Maybe I am wrong and again, I don’t know if anyone actually cares, but I hate continuity errors lol

Author: Amano
Time: 23-Jun-2017 11:09 AM (Edited)
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But sometimes things were changed deliberately to show the 30 years time gap between the movies. Technology advances from time to time 😉

Apparently the Falcon got a Software update. From the old CorreliaOS to ParsecOS 2.0 at some point. Including the new AimingPlugin from NovaSoft.

“People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians”

“In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.” --George Lucas on March 3, 1988

Author: yotsuya
Time: 23-Jun-2017 6:27 PM
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I’m afraid you are incorrect. In both movies the arrows indicate the enemy ships and the direction they are traveling. The glowing square has nothing to do with the arrows and only indicates what section the target was successfully destroyed in. If you follow the arrows and compare them to the surrounding footage, you will find that everything is completely consistent with the arrows indicating enemy ships and their flight path. If you count the arrows, you will find they always match the number of ships. You missed shot in the ANH clip at 1:20 that shows three arrows, and they fly in distinct curves like the Tie fighters, not in straight lines like the blaster bolts.