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Post #1306731

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yotsuya
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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21-Nov-2019, 11:19 AM

According to what science says, as long as you don’t try to hold your breath, nothing in the vacuum of space will kill you instantly. There is no exploding. What would happen first is freezing and asphyxiation. The scene in TLJ that keeps getting complaints actually (except for the use of the force) pretty well follows what science says would happen (the ice crystals were a nice touch, though perhaps not entirely realistic). And Leia’s use of the force is no different form when Luke grabbed his lightsaber in the Wampa cave, only Leia grabbed the ship and they nicely used Newton’s laws to make her move toward it instead of it toward her. And it really fits with where her character was going (before her untimely death) and where it is rumored he character will still go. One of the problems with Abrams method of story telling is he saves backstory to add later and reportedly, before she got pregnant, Leia was training with Luke.

So there really isn’t much problem with the shot of Rey jumping out of the hanger and to the Falcon. If you have a problem with that you must have a real problem with the shot in 2001. A vacuum just doesn’t kill instantly. That is a myth (and not the fun kind that Star Wars relies on).