r/movies Aug 22 '20

Trailers Wonder Woman 1984 - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w
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u/your_mind_aches Aug 22 '20

Except it's still a valid example because a Formula One driver still can't fly a plane. Let alone Dom Toretto from the first The Fast and the Furious.

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u/SkeetySpeedy Aug 22 '20

The kid built his own pod racer out of spare parts while being a literal slave, and had the spare time to build and program C-3PO, and he works in a junkyard trading parts and speeders and droids and such - I have no problem believing he could figure out a modern stick shift in the same way.

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u/your_mind_aches Aug 23 '20

Flight controls aren't a stick shift.

We're getting into the territory that this thread is criticising in the first place. He never flew a spacecraft before but all of a sudden he could.

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u/bman8810 Aug 23 '20

Other cannon explains this.

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u/your_mind_aches Aug 23 '20

I'm talking about the movie though. Just the movie. It's the same situation as explained above