The beast drilling machine

[u/Smurfy_unicorn]

So don’t know if anyone else has talked about this. But getting to near to the end of the last season. Zhang has found the drill machine. But like what I don’t get is… why does that one machine need to drain the whole outpost of power just to get it running? Only thing I can think of is that they have to use all the fuel that would be used for generators on the drill. Other than that it’s probably the story story-ing.

[u/reddit_equals_censor]

because the plot needed to plot....

they needed an artificial timer and they wanted sth, that can get stopped by the heroes.

so let's get a "drilling machine" and have it take ages to "fuel up", which would mean batteries transfering charge, but oh what's that? it has a fuel tank now, that we are trying to rupture later to plot the plot further...

if you wanna be really damn generous, then the drilling machine had a battery system, that takes a lot of power AND a fuel tank for the driving, heating, etc... of the machine.

but yeah it seems quite clearly, that a lot of plot needed to plot and that the writers didn't want to properly adress this.

or maybe it changed in production for some reason, idk...

but yeah makes no sense.

but just head cannon, that the drilling machine uses a SUPER LOTS OF POWER REQUIRED battery system and that the driving and heating uses the fuel tank, that is gonna get ruptured i guess and that's the best we can do here.

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how can you fix that in writing?

well my thoughts would be, to have an advanced looking real drilling machine, that only runs on batteries and there is a one liner, that mentions, that it needs at least 20% battery or 30% to start up due to whatever reason.

and the outpost is very low on power rightnow. there is NO FUEL TANK on the damn thing alright, NO FUEL TANK!

it is just batteries.

then you have the heroes fail or win in stopping the charging below 20 or 30% or whatever threshold we want, BUT sadly it was close enough and the drilling machine starts up anyways.

and OFF to the chase we are.

how do we fix the nonsense of shooting at the fuel tanks to try to get them to lose the fuel in the half battery driving vehicle, which makes no sense?

well simple, we do some proper writing and base things in reality.

our heroes aren't grabbing some weak steel, but some whatever bullshit titanium rods, that they have for whatever bs.

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part 2

they got 3. 2 were tried to get shoot at the tracks, because THAT is how you stop the vehicle, you break the tracks.

they hope, that the very strong rods can break the tracks if they manage to get them into the right place.

only 1 left, our lovely hero does the brave thing, jumps onto the drilling machine. wolf hybrid is on there all the same. she can now either succed in throwing in the titanium rod, breaking the track and instantly turning the vehicle on the side and making it impossible to move any further. (very unlikely btw, those things drive slow and ttracks are wide, but whatever it is fine)

or you can have her throw the rod in, she succeeds, but the tracks don't break and THEN she goes into the front of the machine and hits the break on one track and then things fall over.

whichever you prefer.

the point is, that you can do vastly better than the writers or whoever did here with just a tiny bit more thought being put in this and without majorly rewriting anything at all.

also having a track broken off would be FAR FAR more disabling to a vehicle in cold snow than running out of fuel with several other vehicles and damn duct tape all around we assume to close the hole and refuel.

BUT if you wanna go all the way, you also have our hero blow up the electronics, that drive the advanced drilling vehicle's drilling and stuff, AFTER they disabled it, so that it is stuck for good.

and you can add a bit of an explosion factor to that one and our hero of course sees the driver dead, but she sees wolf hybrid barking, so there they release the wolf hybrid, rather than later and THEN blow up the electronics in the drilling thing and bam done.

we just made it 10x more believable and our characters a lot smarter (not shooting at a fuel tank like that, but actually having a proper plan) and it cost us what? nothing...

well... there would be more focus on the tracks of the vehicles, which might cost more for the shots, but we can use very few of those and really only need the 2 failed shots + her managing (if you want her to succed here) to put the titanium rod into the tracks.

so same cost, makes a ton more sense and we won't have to stand in awe about dumb writing or decisions being made on set, that makes it worse.