Why were they able to see the Hosnian system get destroyed from Takodana? You’d think they’d be right on top of each other for that to make sense… but according to the new maps of the galaxy there is some considerable distance between the two systems.
I assume it will never be explained, but I will go ahead and say the hyperspeed laser light reaches other systems much faster than regular light. So its possible to see it as it happens.
Maybe it should have been pinpoints of light rather than a fireworks show, but that’s Star Wars for you.
Well, SW isn’t exactly knows for being scientifically accurate. Heck, one of the things that convinced Irvin Kershner to direct ESB was that he wouldn’t have to pay attention to any scientific accuracy at all.
This is after all a universe held together by magic, and where space-ships make pretty loud noises in the vacuum of space. All time doesn’t seem to be in any way affected by gravity, or light-speed, so it’s essentially just Middle-Earth in space.
I do however think that they should have made the beam and explosion a tad smaller. More of an illustration, rather than being so blatant. Apparently it’s a lot smaller in the novelization.I guess my issue with it is the planet looks bigger than Mars would to us while they are watching it get destroyed and it is supposed to be happening on the other side of the galaxy. If it was established that they were neighboring systems it wouldn’t bother me if it looked too big, it just seems like too much of a stretch how they portray it given what we know about the locations of these systems in the galaxy.
Oh, I agree that it looks kind of weird, and that it definitively could have been done in a somewhat subtler way. I’m just not considering it a “flaw” in the general sense, and I’m not going to linger on it. The again, I’m sure we’ll get some fan edit that’ll shrink it down a bit at some point. Either way though, I don’t really care.
All they would need to do is show the systems to be close like Hoth and Bespin on the new map and that would satisfy me. I suppose that will be my head cannon for now.