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[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

Star Wars was based on the past but set in the future. They borrowed "stormtroopers" from Hitler. The space battles are just like WWII dogfights. Star Wars was never looking forward it was looking backwards.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

With that logic, Star Trek is the same.

It is based upon submarine life. Even going as far as using the boatswain whistle and radar sounds at the controls.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

You're talking about the organization of the ships crew, they're taking about overarching styles and themes.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Yeah but we need more submarine movies. If I have to pretend, I'll pretend.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

The audacity of people, he wants a submarine movie to Boot.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I'd love to see Disney try out a sort of anthology of short seasons that all share thematic elements of WW2 that made the OT such a spectacle, but do like 4-8 episodes about a given person/squad/ship/squadron/station/agent/whatever...tell one good solid story about that subject then move on.

I'd love for one of those seasons to follow a light capital ship with 1-2 squadrons of fighters, and model it with elements of the carrier war in the Pacific mixed with a submarine movie theme.

Have them playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a much larger ISD or Victory, both stuck in a nebula. They both get their hits in that cause grave damage, but both crews hang in there and stick to the mission.

How it ends is anyone's guess, but I could absolutely see plenty of room in that framework for intense scenes of sensors crews glued to their stations, hoping to go unnoticed, or desperately searching for any sign of their foe...

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

One of my favorite fun facts: "Balance of Terror" was the original Star Trek episode to introduce Romulans, and the first to feature space combat against a near peer adversary.

The screenplay for that episode actually was for a submarine movie, and it got readapted.

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