10 story tall robot that somehow needs no maintenance and doesn’t rust while being stored in the ocean wasn’t immersion breaking? The flute dagger to summon it was!?
I know you’re just being tongue in cheek so this isn’t directed at you, but I loathe these sorts of quips as a response to people who point out things that are immersion-breaking.
Yes I know there’s talking animals in this movie or magic or whatever, but that doesn’t mean anything’s on the table; the world presented still has its own rules that need to be internally consistent. Sure, people can have different thresholds for where that line is, but dismissing people when they bring up something that stood out to them as if one diversion from reality means there can’t be a line at all is ridiculous.
Yeah, but why is one infraction worse than the other?
Robots that need no maintenance is a lot more immersion breaking than a strange sounding sci fi instrument.
“Robots needing no maintenance” is like “the characters never go to the bathroom.” What does or doesn’t happen off screen isn’t nearly as immersion breaking as something both directly depicted and focused.
Probably could’ve been more clear, but I’m not actually talking about the flute or even Power Rangers. Just venting a bit about a pet peeve I have with a particular sentiment online where people seem to say that if something has anything outlandish or unrealistic then the suspension of disbelief can’t have any bounds and that’s silly.
Power Rangers is so outlandish in general that it’s a bad example, I was just using the previous comment as a jumping off point for my little ranting tangent.
Right - people apply the rules they already know. Hermoine has a magic wand, but that’s not carte blanche to whip out a lightsaber, just because those are also fictional. Or a gun, even though those are real.
It’s also the fact that the more fundamental something is and the more familiar we are with it, the less you can fuck with it.
I can accept that a cat is able to talk since they’re mostly physically capable of making the sounds and there are obviously other animals capable of talking (birds, and uh, humans), but you’re not going to get away with a normal guy just inexplicably not needing to breathe because you forgot about that when writing the script.
It’s actually made of ceramics
Where is your Zordon now
The saltwater keeps it clean though
When they tried giving it fresh water, it got mad.
And it was cool AF.
No doubt
That’s cause of the magnets.
This video was 100% some guy talking and 0% the sounds of the actual flute
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
c/ picturesyoucanhear
