No, we listed the same cuts in the same order (I started with the explosion in Knight's cockpit).
Cut #1: Knight's cockpit. ("Stabilizers gone! Shields offline! *yell*"). The explosion starts.
Cut #2: External shot of Knight's fighter starting to explode.
Cut #3: Paladin's cockpit.
Cut #4: External shot of Knight's completely destroyed.
The point, though, was that he *survives* the initial explosion (in Cut #1) and could easily have ejected in Cut #3.QUOTE]
Okay all good. Only thing though, Angel's ejection pod takes much longer to clear the field of view from her fighter (in a much more zoomed out environment) than it the cut of Paladin in his cockpit. So while I agree that it is *possible* (certainly not easily possible) that he could have ejected simply because it's the only way of explaining away the inconsistency of his death in the movie, I believe it is highly unlikely. But we're entitled to our opinions, which is why I kind of tired of this in the first place. Credit to Quarto (sorry if you don't want to be complimented by on of the "loud-mouths who end up being banned for not learning tact and/or reason?") for actually humouring me, at least, with seeing it from my point of view and helping me understand, and not treating me with contempt because I dare question the natural order of things.
I'll never accept the movie as continuity. It's not part of the same story in my mind, that's just how I am, and I think I'm entitled to my view, and none of you have any right to tell me I'm wrong. I got irate at people saying 'you're wrong because LOAF says otherwise' before they explained how you'd (personally, as a group) been through this before 'countless times' and that's fair. From where I was standing, it just seemed like the whole discussion was sided by the LOAF fanclub, because it wasn't explained properly.
So anyway, that's me trying to make my peace and saying sorry for dragging it on or whatever.
Just 2 questions to finish on
1. How does the book describe the destruction of Knight's broadsword? Someone said they'd get back to me on it and they haven't.
2. Are there any Chris Roberts quotes that says 'i've set this movie before the events of wing commander 1' or something like that? Like, 'this is a prequel to the games.'