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Post #340787

Author
Akwat Kbrana
Parent topic
The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
29-Dec-2008, 5:51 PM
Rhikter said:

Originally posted by Akwat Kbrana:

"...it doesn't explain the massive discrepancy vis-a-vis beautiful holographic displays all over the place in the PT, but atari dots and dinky monochrome monitors in the OT..."

I don't know what you could possibly be referencing other than the Death Star plans presented on Yavin IV in ANH.  Other than that you don't have any real argument.

Nonsense. Flashy holographic displays are everywhere in the PT. Every ship cockpit has them (the number of which are legion in the PT). The streets of Coruscant are filled with holographic billboards. The warrooms on Geonosis and Coruscant showcase massive holographic battle tracking systems. The Jedi library has fancy touch-screens with high resolution graphic readouts. Those are just off the top of my head; I'm sure a comprehensive list would be a good deal lengthier.

Compare with the OT. Ship cockpits have tiny flashing lights and a host of levers. What digital screens we see are laughably archaic looking, rather like old ATARI games (targetting computers in MF, TIE fighters, X-Wings, etc.; computer banks in the DS; rebel DS attack run slideshow, and so on). Just compare the Yavin IV war room to the Geonosis war room twenty years ealier. The later site has a silly looking dial that doesn't really seem to do anything, while the earlier (presumably less advanced) site has a very detailed holographic readout that tracks individual ships and troops, if I'm recalling the scene correctly. Now, I can see there being little or no aesthetic progression due to more and more funds being funneled into military development by the Empire, but there's no reason that readout screens and control computers would aesthetically devolve. That's just silly.

George should've kept the look of the PT similar to that of the OT. Instead, he foists off a universe where technology devolves in quality. It's just one more (of many) factors that makes the PT almost impossible to swallow. Suspension of disbelief can only take so many hits before it crumbles entirely.