The subliminal message is that Georgie-boy is such a piss-poor world-builder that even when he hires a team to design a romantic Venetian/Florentine city with organic, old-world baroque elements, he still has this perverse hang-up that all "vehicles" have to look campy-futuristic. He never considers that maybe the gondolas in space Venice would have the same aesthetic as the city, rather than
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