02-18-2015, 10:45 PM
(02-17-2015, 12:31 PM)syscrash Wrote: I agree so many of the comments pick apart the technical arguments of an event. These people sound like the ones that spend their time debunking Star Trek as junk science. The show is only meant to represent a concept. The show uses the type of science that would allow you to jump up in a falling elevator just before it hits the ground and be saved. Stop tring to find holes in the tech and deal with the concept. As for concept the fire solution was pretty good. It made sense even though technically it would never work.
No, that's not entirely fair. The show quite often just hand-waves its explanations as "magic", but this time they deliberately tried to make it techno-babbly and scientific - and by doing so, they invite the viewer to be critical. If they just wanted the viewer to accept it, they could have just had the Grimm-oire give them a recipe for Excandesco suppressant, and just leave it at that.
And its not nitpicking either; when they make the science so egregiously and obviously wrong, it takes you out of your willing suspension of disbelief. Its not just bad science, its bad screenwriting.