I didn't even notice that they had FTL in the film! Are you sure about that?
Yup:
Via faster-than-light travel, Ender and Graff go to "a former Formic colony world near their home world", where the International Fleet has established a command base in a former Formic outpost. --Wikipedia summary
It's when he's in the white flight suit, leaning against a black support couch, with white glowing behind him, on the way to Command school: And I think it comes back again at the end of the film when he's taking the cocoon elsewhere.
Just b/c they have FTL doesn't invalidate Rackham's sublight trip to nowhere. In some ways I felt like they increased the sense of urgency in the film, such as the shot where Graff's explicitly watching a graphic of the Earth fleet approaching the Formic homeworld and there's a timer counting down, but with FTL and the completely wrong scale of that graphic I found that to be more confusing than helpful.
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Date: 2013-12-10 04:42 pm (UTC)Yup:
It's when he's in the white flight suit, leaning against a black support couch, with white glowing behind him, on the way to Command school:
And I think it comes back again at the end of the film when he's taking the cocoon elsewhere.
Just b/c they have FTL doesn't invalidate Rackham's sublight trip to nowhere. In some ways I felt like they increased the sense of urgency in the film, such as the shot where Graff's explicitly watching a graphic of the Earth fleet approaching the Formic homeworld and there's a timer counting down, but with FTL and the completely wrong scale of that graphic I found that to be more confusing than helpful.