"Something like that". They started from the premise that it was not normal fusion, and worked from there. The nature of the menace also wasn't critical to the plot - Doc Ock was doing something horrible and evil that could explode and go very, very wrong, and did it really matter exactly what that is?
Whereas Batman Begins had a microwave emitter that turns water into steam but: * Only affects water in pipes, not water in, say, people, the ocean, the air, puddling on the ground next to the machine, etc. * This steam, despite generating enormous pressure and bursting out of the pipes with tremendous force, isn't hot. It isn't even WARM. * As soon as the steam reaches the water mains in the middle of the city, all the water in the entire city will boil.
And the plot depends, specifically, on all these things being true.
And the supergenius villain who's been leading the supervillain group for centuries? Well, he didn't think of getting the machine to where it needs to be AND ONLY THEN TURNING IT ON. That would have been just too easy!
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Date: 2006-06-04 01:34 pm (UTC)Whereas Batman Begins had a microwave emitter that turns water into steam but:
* Only affects water in pipes, not water in, say, people, the ocean, the air, puddling on the ground next to the machine, etc.
* This steam, despite generating enormous pressure and bursting out of the pipes with tremendous force, isn't hot. It isn't even WARM.
* As soon as the steam reaches the water mains in the middle of the city, all the water in the entire city will boil.
And the plot depends, specifically, on all these things being true.
And the supergenius villain who's been leading the supervillain group for centuries? Well, he didn't think of getting the machine to where it needs to be AND ONLY THEN TURNING IT ON. That would have been just too easy!