I wanted to comment on what struck me as the dumbest part of this movie, I just couldn't believe how it didn't make sense given the context.
Not much of a spoiler, but still is ;)
So the two main characters get to their objective, a huge data center:
Sweet. Looks good right? Now they just have to get it.
So a search starts up... easy... going smoothly...
But then their robot companion informs them:
"I can locate the tape, but you'll need to use the handles for extraction."
What?
Spaceships, light speed travel, laser weapons, and a Death Star, a frackin Death Star!... and you need to manually go get a data tape HDD, because a computer system can;t do it on it's own. That's just too high tech...?
To prove why this would actually be necessary, keep going.
So the character gets onto the handles not sure how to operate them:
Then wait for the robot compatriot to find the disk and signal it's location:
Now, look at how big this is:
It's idiotic in the first point that they would manually do it, but now this shows that it's not even feasible.
The device rotates around the column, and there are 3 columns we can see.
I can propose:
1) These columns go far down and up, where your visibility is reduced, making accuracy of grabbing a disk very difficult as you go down or up more.
2) These columns likely have data all around that you can't see.
If a data tape was somewhere very low or high, or possibly around, it would not be easily accessible.
So that's my rant. There is an advanced technological society that makes data retrieval by robot arms through human hands where the data is in almost impossible to access locations. It just bothered me a bit, and seemed dumb to have :P
What do you think?
Hive account@krnel
2016-12-18, 1:01pm
