Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail

Re:Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail by kridsdale3 on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:16PM (#44007198)

I have always desperately wanted a Star Wars movie that is essentially nothing more than Master and Commander.

No magical beings, no one-in-a-trillion mega-celebrities. Just professionals doing their jobs within the Navy and the adventures they had as mortal, skilled, men.

What are the TIE Pilots talking about off-shift, how does the Captain feel about the new mission priorities?

Andor is closest we've had to seeing this POV.

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Re:Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail by kryogen1c on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:49PM (#44008095)

> Just professionals doing their jobs

This is one of the reasons I love Rogue One. There is a desperation that permeates the film that culminates into the titanic final scene

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Re:Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail by alabastervlog on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:26PM (#44007291)

Yeah, kind of what Lower Decks (the show, and for that matter also the episode "Lower Decks") is to Star Trek, but not comedy. Andor is indeed the closest I know of to that, though you see little touches of similar things in some episodes of The Mandalorian and the Clone Wars cartoon (though of course that one's also full of the "magical beings")

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Re:Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail by xeonmc on Friday May 16, 2025 @05:41PM (#44010016)

If Peter Jackson had followed through with Temeraire I think it’d be right up your alley.

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Re:Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail by arzig on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:33PM (#44010734)

I feel like there have been rumblings of an honor Harrington by David Weber movie for decades at this point. It it may just not happen.

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