What was the point of even having the shields if they never do anything? I get that it's an extremely lazy excuse to have futuristic technology with medieval fight sequences, but you probably could've just done it without the shield excuse and nobody would care.

Miller's Planet is so fucking stupid it's unreal
>Brand and Doyle somehow don't see the wave when they first exit the ranger
>Nobody saw the wave during the landing
>They have to physically retrieve the black box and have no way to just download the data from orbit
>Brand somehow knows exactly where the data is despite the beacon being separated from it and no further wreckage being visible above the waterline
>Brand (and Doyle) go to physically retrieve it instead of just sending CASE
>Doyle stands arounds like a retard while CASE goes to save Brand