I don't think anyone uses a single lightsaber or force power once in the entire runtime of the best star wars thing of all time which probably says something about star wars
I always hate it when any media tries to explain the magic, making it scientific in any way grinds my gears unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist.
The only time I’ve seen it done well is with “power levels” in Dragon Ball, and even then the whole point of power levels was to demonstrate how bullshit they were.
EDIT: Not that I’m biased as Hexbear’s resident Dragon Ball glazer of course.
tries to explain the magic, making it scientific in any way grinds my gears unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist.
i was going to hard fucking disagree because I think it's super cool when there's effort put into the magic system of a given setting but then you went and gave an example i agree with
Most of the time it's just sloppy. It's techno babble, but fantasy. Instead of "Reverse the polarity so we can hyperjump our warp drive back online!" it's "Reverse your mana flow so you can teleport through the aether!"
A lot of fantasy creators don't think their ideas all the way through. Like if you can make infinite fire using magic, you have an infinite energy source. If you have an infinite energy source, you have an infinite number of lanterns, transport systems, and so on. This also means there's not going to be conflicts over energy. Instead, we get people throwing fireballs at one another with some other techno babble reason for why there aren't free electric carriages.
If magic is unknowable and dangerous, then it makes sense why there isn't free drinking water everywhere from infinite ice/water mages.
I don't think anyone uses a single lightsaber or force power once in the entire runtime of the best star wars thing of all time which probably says something about star wars
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Getting a restraining order from Dave Filloni because I keep asking him to put Itchy's VR Gooning Rig into the new Star Wars shows
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At least there's Mobile Suit Gundam for a late 70s YA sci-fi work with music from that era. It goes fucking hard, too.
On the unfortunate side of things, Williams' scores are so timeless that I think Jo the Terf's Wizard Boy movies will be around for quite a while.
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I always hate it when any media tries to explain the magic, making it scientific in any way grinds my gears unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist.
The only time I’ve seen it done well is with “power levels” in Dragon Ball, and even then the whole point of power levels was to demonstrate how bullshit they were.
EDIT: Not that I’m biased as Hexbear’s resident Dragon Ball glazer of course.
I like a well-defined and investigatable magic system, but I don't like an inherently eugenicist one.
I think FMA gets a pass since it ends at a sensible length and can't keep dragging on about every minute detail
i was going to hard fucking disagree because I think it's super cool when there's effort put into the magic system of a given setting but then you went and gave an example i agree with
Most of the time it's just sloppy. It's techno babble, but fantasy. Instead of "Reverse the polarity so we can hyperjump our warp drive back online!" it's "Reverse your mana flow so you can teleport through the aether!"
A lot of fantasy creators don't think their ideas all the way through. Like if you can make infinite fire using magic, you have an infinite energy source. If you have an infinite energy source, you have an infinite number of lanterns, transport systems, and so on. This also means there's not going to be conflicts over energy. Instead, we get people throwing fireballs at one another with some other techno babble reason for why there aren't free electric carriages.
If magic is unknowable and dangerous, then it makes sense why there isn't free drinking water everywhere from infinite ice/water mages.