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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy probably fits the bill too. I don’t think it’s got much in the way of space battles, but to be fair I only read part of the first one before I realized I wasn’t interested in reading 5 solid pages on the way they designed the Martian calendar to sync with Earth’s and other extremely detailed technical stuff of a similar nature.
Yeah, this bill is trash.
Wait, is there something we all pretty much agree on in the politics thread? O.O
The Expanse (both the novels and the TV show) are fairly “hard” sci-fi for the most part, but are also a space opera mixed with somewhat Game of Thrones-style politics. There’s a couple of things you’d have to look past - the Epstein drives that allow reasonably quick travel throughout the solar system are impossibly efficient, for one, and the show cuts corners with the science now and then to speed things up and keep the show on budget. But the nature of the existential threat (comparable to Game of Thrones’ White Walkers in a way) might turn you off, as it violates the laws of physics, however the characters discovering that it seems to ignore physics as we understand it is a huge plot point, so I’m not sure what your feelings on that will be.
It does fit the “space warfare” bit that you’re looking for pretty well - crash couches and a drug cocktail called “juice” that allows passengers to survive high-G maneuvers, fighting that takes place over long distances with rail guns that rip through the entire hull of the ship including the depressurization that would occur (without the “sucking everything out of the room like a vacuum” trope), near-combat guns that are computer/AI controlled rather than manned by a human gunner, etc.
Give it a shot. You may enjoy the books (Leviathan Wakes being the first) more than the TV show, just because, like I said, the show has to compromise now and then with the realism/hard sci-fi aspect (one particular example of orbital mechanics depicted on the show is pretty glaring), and after the first book the existential threat I mentioned has more and more of an effect on the story, which kind of kills your “diamond-hard science fiction” request depending on your feelings on how (or if) non-terrestrial entities can be depicted in hard sci-fi, but it’s worth a shot.
(I tried to be as vague and spoiler-free as I could when talking about the “existential threat” in the series, but I had to at least bring it up just in case that kills the “hard sci-fi” part for you.)
The Phantom Menace.
I’m beginning to understand Frink’s pain.
Drink well from it, my friend.
Wait I don’t want to be the source of any sort of pain to anyone.
Am I doing something wrong?
No, you just made Frink feel old, that’s all.
Is there a cut (fanedit maybe) of 2001 that uses Alex North rejected score ?
I’ve never heard of one, but that would be a neat experiment.
Something like (not at home so can’t check right now):
Asus laptop, Windows 10
2.4Ghz quad-core Intel i7 mobile
8GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 650M
Thanks for the concern, all. Ibuprofen has kept it down to 100 or below for most of the day, but I will likely go to the doctor if it hits 104 or so, which hopefully won’t happen.
Tylenol (acetaminophen) is a better fever reducer.
Yeah, ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory. Acetaminophen/paracetamol would be a better choice. Just don’t take more than is recommended, it’s bad on your liver.
Which, by the way, a general PSA: don’t take Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol for a hangover, take ibuprofen, for exactly that reason (liver).
I have the 384kbps stereo AC3 if that’s good enough for you. Shoot me a PM if you want it.
JEDIT: Actually the link Molly shared still seems to work, and that’s the same copy I have, so you can just download that.
There might be one or two on MySpleen I can snag for you if you don’t have an account. They have freeleech right now so it won’t kill my ratio. I can check when I get home later tonight.
minus the LSD. 😛
Fine, if you wanna take all the fun out of it. 😉
paja can be kept under control.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Oh wait, you were serious.
Well, I said all that in my initial comment too, I didn’t say it was only because Luke was being a jerk.
Any word on where 70mm screenings will be held? *crosses fingers for Chicago*
It says as much on my avatar, can’t you guys read?
Exactly. That’s why several of them were cut - because they no longer fit with the structure of the film as it was shaped in the edit bay.
Rian insists that the caretaker scene was cut because Luke was too much of a jerk in it, and he thought it was better to go from Luke and Rey starting to understand each other into the hand touching scene rather than them being at each other’s throats at the time, but I think the restructuring was another big reason for that scene being lost, too.
That’s not quite what he said in the commentary though, it wasn’t that Luke was a jerk it was more about wanting to see Luke and Rey make some progress whereas the caretaker scene happens right after Rey declares that she won’t fail him. So it was more like changing it up so that every scene didn’t end with Luke being a disappointment, and which made they fact that she leaves hurt even more.
Not sure if restructuring played into it so much as pacing.
I thought he said it was a bit of both, but mostly that without the scene it appears Luke and Rey were making progress before the hand-holding scene, and with the scene it seems like their relationship had fallen apart even more (because of Luke being a jerk).
I dunno, maybe I didn’t pay enough attention or interpreted what he said slightly differently. I’ll definitely have to give the commentary another listen. I may also be culling from an EW interview about it or something.
Exactly. That’s why several of them were cut - because they no longer fit with the structure of the film as it was shaped in the edit bay.
Rian insists that the caretaker scene was cut because Luke was too much of a jerk in it, and he thought it was better to go from Luke and Rey starting to understand each other into the hand touching scene rather than them being at each other’s throats at the time, but I think the restructuring was another big reason for that scene being lost, too.
It would also get rid of cutting to Leia in hyperspace for one shot only, and then immediately back to Rey and Luke, and there seems to be no clear consensus on how to approach this transition.
Because that wasn’t the transition when the scene was still in the movie - it didn’t cut to Leia for one shot, then back. It cut to Leia and then followed the Resistance plot for a bit (with the Finn/Poe jacket scene, then the demotion scene).
Johnson said the Luke scene was a casualty of restructuring that portion of the film in post production - originally there was a lot more cutting back and forth between Ahch-To and the Resistance plotlines, but eventually they decided to stick with each plot for longer stretches of time.
Another example of this is the prison escape and fathier chase - the moment when it pans down to the manhole they escaped from in prison directly to the manhole they emerge from in the fathier stable? Johnson said in the commentary that that was an edit point where they would have transitioned back to Luke and Rey with an optical wipe.
Including a lot of the deleted scenes will require more restructuring than people seem to realize, I think, as several of them seem to have been casualties of reorganizing the footage in editing and won’t fit back into place without some more reshuffling.
I do like your idea of moving the Luke’s Moment scene though, that’s something I might have to play with myself.
I used Pilusmagnus’s Extended Edition (available over in the FanEdit.org forums) as a base, which included the following additional deleted scenes:
Hey there, I can’t seem to find this edition anywhere. In fact I can’t even find Pilusmagnus at all on fanedit.org.
Is there another keyword I should be searching for? If I look up Jedi in the fanedit.org search it doesn’t have anything beyond 2017.
It’s currently on page 2 of the In the Works section of the forum. If you aren’t registered at the fanedit.org forum yet, you might not be able to access that section.
He’s here, you’re just spelling his name wrong. It’s dahmages.
He tells Artoo near the end of TFA that he “must get [his] proper arm reinstalled” and the last time you see him (as the Falcon flies away at the end), he has his gold arm again. No continuity error, but it’s very subtle.
First of all, that was a background character with zero dialogue (if we ignore her singing Jedi Rocks). Second of all, I’m not even sure she’s human.
Coming back to the comment of hair-dyeing, I’m annoyed by the fact Disney has introduced main characters with weird hair colors, while Lucas never did that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m open to new stuff in Star Wars: new spaceships, new planets, new lightsabers, etc. I’m perfectly fine with that. But outstanding hair colors feel so out of place in Star Wars, that stuff should belong in anime.
I think my distaste of anime hair in TLJ is no different than the fan reaction to the toilet humour in TPM. On both occasions we got something that didn’t feel like Star Wars at all, and fans were pissed off.
I wasn’t even a huge fan of the hair color choice myself, but holy hell this is just…I don’t have words.
Congrats on your microscopic infant!
Having to pay to see a doctor about a fever? American health care is fucked up.
You should see how much my best friend still owes for an emergency appendectomy two years ago.
And yes, she had insurance.
If I ever have to go to the doctor for something like that I probably just won’t even bother paying my medical bills.
She let it go to collections then worked out a monthly plan with them. Because the hospital wouldn’t do it for a reasonable amount of money (they wanted the whole $5,000 or so immediately, then wouldn’t go lower than $250/month payments - she pays $50/month to collections right now and is saving up slowly to settle the entire remainder when she can).
Yeah, I wouldn’t even pay it then.
Then you get taken to court and get your wages garnished. There’s no way around it in the long run, except maybe bankruptcy.
Why the fuck would you want to please MRA’s?
Having to pay to see a doctor about a fever? American health care is fucked up.
You should see how much my best friend still owes for an emergency appendectomy two years ago.
And yes, she had insurance.
If I ever have to go to the doctor for something like that I probably just won’t even bother paying my medical bills.
She let it go to collections then worked out a monthly plan with them. Because the hospital wouldn’t do it for a reasonable amount of money (they wanted the whole $5,000 or so immediately, then wouldn’t go lower than $250/month payments - she pays $50/month to collections right now and is saving up slowly to settle the entire remainder when she can).