See this is what I don't see where you are coming from. Yes it's possible that Knight may just plausible that he escaped. As far as I can see, the shot shows knight in his cockpit, and like 0.0 seconds later his ship explodes like a tinderbox, in about 0.3 seconds. So he has that 0.4 second gap maybe at the most to have escaped from his craft.
However, the shot shows him in the craft, the craft exploding in on him. The very next frame, with nothing in between, shows the craft exploding, with no pod shooting off. There's no time gap (i.e. another shot of Paladin) for a pod to escape and for us to see it, nor is there a shot of anything escaping from the cockpit.
I can appreciate you explaining how it is possible for this to happen, but you ask someone who didn't play Wing Commander what happens in this scene, they'll say Knight dies, and that clearly shows what the filmmaker was trying to make out. If you think that Chris Roberts isn't intending to portray Knight's death here, then you're truly fooling yourselves. A later shot shows Angel ejecting from her Rapier. The shot shows a much smaller region of space, yet it takes far longer than half a second for the pod and the fighter not to be on screen together, let alone appear together at all.
What this means is that Chris Roberts intended to portray Knights death in this shot. I dare you to argue otherwise.
However, the shot shows him in the craft, the craft exploding in on him. The very next frame, with nothing in between, shows the craft exploding, with no pod shooting off. There's no time gap (i.e. another shot of Paladin) for a pod to escape and for us to see it, nor is there a shot of anything escaping from the cockpit.
I can appreciate you explaining how it is possible for this to happen, but you ask someone who didn't play Wing Commander what happens in this scene, they'll say Knight dies, and that clearly shows what the filmmaker was trying to make out. If you think that Chris Roberts isn't intending to portray Knight's death here, then you're truly fooling yourselves. A later shot shows Angel ejecting from her Rapier. The shot shows a much smaller region of space, yet it takes far longer than half a second for the pod and the fighter not to be on screen together, let alone appear together at all.
What this means is that Chris Roberts intended to portray Knights death in this shot. I dare you to argue otherwise.