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Post #466409

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Bocce_Linguist
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Interesting Tidbit from lucas before episode 1 started filming that gave a hint that the pt films were not given the care needed to be great
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23-Jan-2011, 12:45 AM

TheBoost said:

Bocce_Linguist said:

Bingowings said:

In terms of space battles the one at the end of TPM looks WWI to ANH's WWII (colourful simple fighter craft /less colouful gritty fighter craft ).

The problem isn't so much in the design but it the writing.

Maybe it's not so much the specific look* of the fighter crafts but rather the execution of the battles that makes it hard for me to believe/accept that TPM is supposed to be 'before' SW/ANH.

*even taking into consideration your color analogy, there's still a problem, though: we should have at least seen Y-Wings in the PT,  since during the OT days the film makers involved were saying that they looked so 'beat-up' because they were in fact older craft than the X-wings....

I can see both sides of this, but ultimately it seems to me that the choice to not even care that the PT didn't really look earlier than the OT (except smaller Star Destroyers) is a creative choice, not a technical one. Whatever design choices would have successfully made the PT look a generation earlier than the OT could have been acheived in CGI.

(on the other hand, if the Republic has already stood for a thousand generations, how much technological advance do we expect to see in 20 years?)

 

  Then again,  if audiences were never actually going to 'see' those "thousand generations",   I don't think the proposed World War-style  technological advance via 20 years would have been all that problematic.