Moonraker (film)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** Maybe Drax didn't have the idea until he had already built a space shuttle program and working space station, and at that point it would have been cheaper to put everything in orbit rather than build an underground ark.

** The space station could serve future purposes; given that he wants to remake human society, one of his pet peeves might be that we should be devoting more time and money to space travel, and his new world will do that. Plus, the man has a God Complex; he probably couldn't resist the idea of raining down death from the Heavens. As for money, he is planning to annihilate the human race. If he succeeds (or if he fails and is caught), money isn't going to be all that important anymore (it would also be harder to ''get'' caught, for various reasons).

* So in ''Moonraker'', lasers are small and lethal enough to be used as an infantry and anti-air (anti-space?) weapon. We also have shuttles that can be launched in under an hour, and marines trained in space-borne operations. Why didn't this show up anywhere else in the franchise?

** Pure [[Fan Wank]] here; the training of the space marines ran parallell to the whole space shuttle programme and Moonraker was the first time we saw them being used. Despite their critical role in saving the world, the political fallout from the massive loss of life and the cost of continuing the operation meant that funding was withdrawn from the project. Hence no space marines to take out the satellites in ''[[Goldeneye]]'' and ''[[Die Another Day]]''.