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[Supplement Four]

I'm actually trying to think really hard of a single SF film, TV series or comic strip where the battles are out of visual range....there must be at least one!

Don't think scifi shows...

Think of the fantastic old tension filled submarine warfare films.

That'd be one way to do it.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Go Subs!

I totally agree with Supp4 on this, but then again, Gramps built the best subs of WWII and grew up on tons of black & white submarine movies, and the modern ones too. Yep, love me a good sub movie!

Nice and dramatic.

 

[Colin]

I'm actually trying to think really hard of a single SF film, TV series or comic strip where the battles are out of visual range....there must be at least one!

I suppose in Trek the visual they have is optically enhanced when they see it from the bridge.

A great deal of anime has the missiles streaking out in long, fuel-wasting curves, and then a series of huge explosions off in the distance.

 

[ravells]

Don't think scifi shows...

Think of the fantastic old tension filled submarine warfare films.

That'd be one way to do it.

Definitely...the tension on Das Boot was unbearable at times. The whole concept of this death you could not see (depth charges).. .... yeah tense as hell.

 

[Easterner9504]

I'm actually trying to think really hard of a single SF film, TV series or comic strip where the battles are out of visual range....there must be at least one!

I suppose in Trek the visual they have is optically enhanced when they see it from the bridge.

ST:TOS made frequent reference to magnification!

This action fought between Earth & moon implies capital ships can't see each other, just fighters and the far away jump points. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nUn6vT1yc&feature=related

Only thing I could find.

 

[aramis]

Definitely...the tension on Das Boot was unbearable at times. The whole concept of this death you could not see (depth charges).. .... yeah tense as hell.

Works great on video...

but not near as well in graphic novels. I've seen a comic adaptation of Das Boot... it wasn't nearly so tense as the movie. The sense of waiting for the death you can't see was absent.

Different medium, different needed modes of storytelling.

 

[Rev Round]

Very accomplished. I'm envious.