darth_ender said:
One of my favorite franchises is Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Excellent movies, all three of them, in my book. I know people have issues with things here and there, but I love them. And in spite of the complaints people level against these films, one thing I never hear is how disconnected clips in the scenes are. You will watch a conversation take place, and it is extremely obvious that the editing is cutting out a few seconds here and there. It's not hard to miss, everyone knows it is happening. Yet, no one cares. We don't have to have every second on screen to know what happened. I never, ever have had a problem with the asteroid scene. It was obvious that we had skipped ahead a few seconds, just like TDK trilogy and other movies do all the time. Just like "Concentrate all fire on that super star destroyer" led to an immediate burst of A-wing firepower upon the Executor's shield generator, though there is no way the order could have been responded to so quickly and effectively in so short a time. Just like Luke dropped to the top of the Millennium Falcon from the underside of Cloud City and was immediately carried into the ship, though Lando could not have possibly gotten ahold of him and brought him inside standing up in so short a time. Just like Vader got all the way to the Executor from Cloud City with no shuttle needing to be seen in so short a time, impossibly fast if we were to assume time passed at a literal speed. Just like Luke taking off from Hoth, with no wipe indicating the passage of time, was seen in his X-wing hovering feet from the surface while the canopy closed, and then was immediately beyond the atmosphere. Why do we have to see every second? So often movies skip unneeded moments, and we never complain. Why, oh why would we have to spoon feed the audience that somehow the Falcon had managed to traverse the distance to the larger asteroid and meanwhile changed the angle of approach?
Thank you for this explanation. I honestly do not see why the asteroid scene is being made out to be this HUGE continuity error that's been plaguing the film for generations.