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[–] Bimfred@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hot take: I'm fine with this. Film, TV and games are audio-visual mediums, they depend on the sound just as much as the image. All the awesome space battles would lose from being dead silent. No sound, no music. You're in a vacuum, where's the music coming from?

The silence of vacuum should be used when it would enhance the drama and impact of the scene, not for a slavish adherence to realism.

Firefly, Interstellar and For All Mankind benefit from the silence because they're not about the excitement of space, they're about the drama of space and the characters. In those, space is a character all on its own. Star Wars and Star Trek are about the adventures and the action. Space is just the setting. And in that context, silence is jarring.