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* If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't have been able to find the player he needed. Fate indeed.
** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering [[HumansAreWarriors humanity's amazing ability to deal death]], putting a game on Earth was bound to result in recruiting a great pilot sooner or later.
** Also, it's not the only Starfighter machine (or having a "world record" would be meaningless.) While this machine went to a trailer park, other machines probably went to New York, Tokyo, and so on.
** In the novelization, there were actually many Starfighter games mentioned, and in fact only a select few were rigged as tests. Centauri would presumably slip the test rigs into the distribution channel after they left the factory. Alex is noted as liking the machine in the park better than the one at the mall because it felt much more responsive.
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** Makes even more sense when Grig later states that he doesn't even think of death the same way just about everyone else does. Believing that when people die, they go off to continue battling evil in "another dimension".
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* Not all Starfighter machines were intended to test unsuspecting humans of their gunner ability. Otis ordered the Starfighter machine, but he got sent one of the rigged machines by accident. It would make sense Centauri would have the rigged machines sent to high population areas like Las Vegas (or Los Angeles or New York).
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* FridgeBrilliance: Grig obviously knew [[spoiler: Centauri wasn't dead]], but used his death as motivation for Alex. Sly old lizard.
* FridgeBrilliance: When the Rylan officer issues Alex with a universal translator device, the background chatter switches from Rylan to English.
* FridgeBrilliance: When the Rylan officer issues Alex with a universal translator device, the background chatter switches from Rylan to English.
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!!FridgeBrilliance
*FridgeBrilliance: Grig obviously knew [[spoiler: Centauri wasn't dead]], but used his death as motivation for Alex. Sly old lizard.
*FridgeBrilliance: When the Rylan officer issues Alex with a universal translator device, the background chatter switches from Rylan to English.
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* FridgeLogic: The placement of Alex in the front seat of the Gunstar, with Grig's pilot seat in the back, seems odd, but it makes sense given the Gunstar is a weapons platform, and it gives the Starfighter the maximum field of view to fire (this is considered so important to the in-universe ship designers that they even made the chair the gunner sits in rotate to allow maximum viewing ability). This also parallels the design of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, which went into service around the same time as the movie.
!!FridgeLogic
* If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't have been able to find the player he needed. Fate indeed.
!!FridgeLogic
* If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't have been able to find the player he needed. Fate indeed.
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* Fridgebrilliance: When the Rylan officer issues Alex with a universal translator device, the background chatter switches from Rylan to English.
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** Not necessarily, it could have been Centauri dropping off Starfighter games or checking up on them.
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* Beta needs to repair his ears one night after Alex left with Centauri the second time. Earlier, when Alex first found out about Beta, we're told that Maggie stuck her tongue in Beta's ear. I guess human saliva isn't too good for alien electronics either...
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** In the novelization, there were actually many Starfighter games mentioned, and in fact only a select few were rigged as tests. Centauri would presumably slip the test rigs into the distribution channel after they left the factory. Alex is noted as liking the machine in the park better than the one at the mall because it felt much more responsive.
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* After Alex gets the news about his loan being rejected and runs out of the trailer, he spends a few moments where he sees a shooting star fly across the sky. This was really Centauri's Star Car arriving on earth.
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* After Alex gets the news about his loan being rejected and runs out of the trailer, he spends a few moments looking at the night sky, where he sees a shooting star fly across the sky.star. This was really Centauri's Star Car arriving on earth.
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* After Alex gets the news about his loan being rejected and runs out of the trailer, he spends a few moments where he sees a shooting star fly across the sky. This was really Centauri's Star Car arriving on earth.
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** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering humanity's amazing ability to deal death, putting a game on Earth was bound to result in recruiting a great pilot sooner or later.
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** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering [[HumansAreWarriors humanity's amazing ability to deal death, death]], putting a game on Earth was bound to result in recruiting a great pilot sooner or later.
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*Could also count as a FunnyBackgroundEvent: during the opening shots of the trailer park, a radio is giving the morning news report and mentions strange lights in the sky, leading to the conclusion that it's a UFO report. Doubles as FridgeHorror when, later in the film, Grig mentions that the Star League isn't due to contact Earth until it matures, leaving one to wonder if it's the Ko-Dan preparing for an invasion.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Grig obviously knew [[spoiler: Centauri wasn't dead]], but used his death as motivation for Alex. Sly old lizard.
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** Also, it's not the only Starfighter machine (or having a "world record" would be meaningless.) While this machine went to a trailer park, other machines probably went to New York, Tokyo, and so on.
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** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering humanity's amazing ability to deal death, putting a game on Earth proved Centari was [[TheChessmaster]].
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** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering humanity's amazing ability to deal death, putting a game on Earth proved Centari was [[TheChessmaster]].bound to result in recruiting a great pilot sooner or later.
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** True, but there would have been many, many more people who would have a chance to play the game, giving a bigger chance of finding someone with "the gift". Considering humanity's amazing ability to deal death, putting a game on Earth proved Centari was [[TheChessmaster]].
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* FridgeLogic: If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't be able to find the player. Fate indeed.
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* FridgeLogic: If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't be have been able to find the player.player he needed. Fate indeed.
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* FridgeLogic: If the game was delivered to Vegas as Centauri intended, he likely wouldn't be able to find the player. Fate indeed.
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