On 7/9/2015 1:14 AM, Richard Aiken wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Grimmund <grimmund@gmail.com
> <mailto:grimmund@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes.  If you can get both ships visible in the TV frame, and neither
>     appears to be moving relative to the other, you are apparently doing
>     WW2 naval engagements in space.
>
>
> It's not *quite* that bad. They use pseudo handheld perspective a lot.
> You see a shaky, medium close shot of the Enemy, then the view
> draws back very rapidly until the Enemy is only a tiny blurred dot and
> then the edge of the Galactica's hull appears in the frame.

Actually, yeah, that's about WW2 range.  Naval guns of the period could
literally engage targets over the horizon (not a problem in space,
obviously) with data provided by spotters and/or radar.

If the target is visible to the naked eye, then the range is probably
unrealistically short for space combat.  This is, in turn, almost always
due to the need to make the target visible, and the action interesting,
to the eyes of the audience.

--
---------------
Kelly St. Clair
kellys@efn.org