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I would like to see a lot more short stories for nerds that just go super fucking practical about scifi premises.
Ghostbusters suing the EPA.
Pacific Rim: All litigation edition
Planet of the Apes - getting a permit for an indoor human
Terminator 2: Custody Battle
There's a completely unnecessary courtroom scene in Project Hail Mary (the book) that really feels like Andy Weir just wanted to make his disdain for the legal system known. It's not necessary to the premise of the story, or even the background.
It's not enough that this multinational organization has completely seized control over the Sahara for an alien microbe farming operation or nuked Antarctica in widespread geo engineering, but, get this, they even got an exemption from copyright law!
See, that's how your know it's fiction.
Pacific Rim doesn't really work when you think about it, I'm not convinced the damage from the monsters is necessarily any less than the damage caused by the giant robots walking around fighting the alien monster things.
But then again they never explain why you can't just drop a bomb on them from high altitude.
There's a backstory that basically told the tale of the first kaiju and they tried to nuke it and it didn't go well. Video explainer. It took 3 nukes, so especially since they go underwater for most of the trip and then surface close to shore, it's not worth the risk.
And yeah, I would expect that there's some law about "can't sue if the jeager steps on your house" or something.
DaiGuard touches on this. It's a giant robot anime but the pilots are just wrong-place-right-time workers, the mech is hard to control because it's a giant mech, and they have to deal with insurance claims and shit for all the stuff they destroy in the fights.
OH MY GOD! THE INSURANCE! I totally did't even think of that. Good call!
Someone mentioned on YouTube that they would kill to see Truman's lawsuit from after The Truman Show ends.
The Star Wars prequels.
Ugh. I mean, 20% of them already are boring practical stuff.
Phantom Menace: Coruscant wires credits to Tattooine. The whole movie is waiting around for the shop to do some work. Sitting in a miserable waiting room.
Attack of the Clones: Bugs??? Bugs in my Senator Condo? Padme's going to find the contract and see if the landlord should spray for bugs or if she has to pay for that.
Rise of the Sith: Crashing most of a ship on a landing strip earns Anakin several tickets and he has to go to traffic court to get them dismissed.
Watto doesn't accept republic credits. That was the whole issue.
ok but here on earth, where we only have one species to transact with, we still have currency exchanges everywhere so that you could exchange the republican credits for something usable - and while, maybe, tatooine doesn't have one ON THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET, which seems dubious if there's a whole galaxy out there using republican credits, somewhere else in the star system might or in a nearby star system would surely have the ability to exchange currencies, right?
Sure, we have those, but most random small shop owners don't want to deal with that. Try and go into a mom & pop in the US and pay in Euros
@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world is right. Go to any moderate-sized market in Africa and if you just show up wit USD or GBP or EUR, someone will gladly exchange it for local currency. Not at the bank rate, just whatever they feel like. It's a 20 minute conversation.
"OK, Mister Watto - who does currency exchange in this truck stop town?"
"Eeehh, talk to Martin down at the cantina."
yup, and roll the credits.
sure it'd be a short movie but it'd make so much more sense!
The movie could have been 90 minutes more of Trade Federation stuff! Oh YEAH!
ooh we missed out
but the whole fuckin planet? no one on an entire planet with multiple cities?
eh....
Startrek, finally wiring in some damn cameras after manually hunting down intruders for the fifty eight thousandth time.
Notice how they don't have cameras, they've just got sensors that get easily blocked by convenient subspace shenanigans, but no one thought of adding any actual light detecting cameras.
Honestly, I would fucking kill for a Star Trek take on The West Wing. Like, how does the Federation government work? How do you legislate when you're made up of dozens of species?
I'd have to have a look at a pacific rim ground crew story, jim was testing the brain link but was caught scratching his nuts, it's been five days and parts we need haven't showed up so we might have to send a limping mech to let them know we are serious, someone got fired after security cameras recorded them hanging a date up in the cockpit for the third time
The jagers can't go out because one of the pilots hasn't changed his password in 30 days