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Seems like it'd be tricky to do from a story telling perspective. Totally removes all agency from protagonists. Every fight becomes a deus ex machina - "welp,
by chucksmash 8y ago
Seems like it'd be tricky to do from a story telling perspective.
Totally removes all agency from protagonists. Every fight becomes a deus ex machina - "welp, our targetting subroutines continue to be superior to their maneuvering systems so they died. Hooray us?"
Or I guess more probably just a numbers game: "welp, our effective weapons range is larger than theirs, so that's that" with an MCRN exemption clause.
- Florin_Andrei 8y ago> Every fight becomes a deus ex machina Sounds like a book by Iain M. Banks.
- philipkglass 8y agoIsn't this how real-world warfare is trending already? A vehicle full of soldiers may die before they even know there was a threat flying overhead. But it's not very heroic-looking to just keep the laser designator on target until the bomb lands. I suppose that's why so many contemporary thrillers or even far-future science fiction movies devolve into hand to hand combat for the climactic showdown. It looks more interesting. (Though personally it makes me groan and want to throw things at the screen.)
- Retra 8y agoYou can't really write a compelling story where your logistics make the hero rather than... heroism.
- philipkglass 8y agoI wonder what the makers of Zero Dark Thirty did to keep it compelling. I haven't seen the movie myself. The real-life mission resulted in only one light injury among the Americans and involved zero fist fights. Osama bin Laden himself was killed before he could fire a single shot or throw a punch.