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Bingowings said:

Kapheen said:

Anyone else notice that the probe droid is doing the Ninja Cat move and appears closer every time you look away and look back? ;)

 

Looks great! Can't wait to see the final product!

With all the attention on the droid it's easy to not notice the lighting continuity fix which is astonishingly seamless.

I confess I didn't notice it for ages it looked so appropriate.

It's like choosing children. I have to say TOS (because it's my job). Sure its old and campy, but it dared to do things nothing else on television was doing.

For those interested, Trek.fm has series-specific podcasts to check out. So far we have VGR and DS9 covered, with more coming soon!

Bingowings said:

It's in there, and I liked it but it's not Hueg Like Blink.

Wouldn't he like School Reunion, with you know who?

SilverWook said:

The transporter has always been a story problem in that it can be a magical problem solver in one episode or movie, that is forgotten about when a similar dilemma comes up. One reason it frequently gets damaged, or external phenomena renders it useless.

TAS and TNG opened a can of worms in using molecular patterns to reconstitute a character or restore them to health. (The person doesn't remember anything that happened after they last beamed out.) Which leads to the thorny question why you can't beam up someone who just died in your landing party and restore them to life, as the "alive" pattern is still in the buffer?

darth_ender said:

So I doubt after so many days that I'd be able to do a decent job on Star Trek Into Darkness.  However, it would better fit the original purpose of this thread, as I really enjoyed the film immensely, and this thread is for critiquing films I enjoy in jest.  Your enjoyment of the film is irrelevant.  Only my enjoyment matters. ;)

In all seriousness, one flaw stood out to me right away: transporters!  Why is it that Kirk can transport from Delta Vega to the Enterprise at warp speed using Scotty's transwarp principle, and that same principle is used to transport...erm...John Harrison to Kronos many lightyears away (bearing in mind that planets are rotating and oribiting at thousands of miles an hour in solar systems that are orbiting the galaxy), and yet it was impossible to beam Spock and Harrison off of a moving vehicle, because in this alternate timeline transporters can't lock on moving targets from even relatively close distances?  Maybe one could say such was an acceptable excuse for Spock's mother's death in the first film, but by now Scotty's technology should have at least included a modest upgrade to most transporters so they could at least lock on targets not moving too quickly.

JEDIT: Feel free to create your own contributions to the STID critique list.

I've said it "Crate". I think that's how they say it in the video games?

I apologize, I assumed you couldn't replace the probe being shot/exploding, I didn't want to suggest you could if you couldn't. Of course you could.

Screenshots, Drew, it's not like it's your job.

Its all about finding the balance. I never noticed the half dozen things that were wrong before he fixed that scene. Now that I've seen the debris, weather changes, antennae movement, sudden stop at the end of the rail, and whatever else, I think this is a fair trade. ;-)

emanswfan said:

I heard this line from Samuel Jackson in The Avengers, and thought of this edit:

"I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

-So maybe something with the Jedi-council?

darth_ender said:

I hate to be the one to point out errors.  It often bugs me when others do so, particularly when the problems are terribly trivial, but I don't think anyone else caught this one, and I don't think it's as trivial as some.  In your most recent video, Adywan, your more animated probe droid is great.  However, his arms are bent so the joints are outward and the 'hands' are more central, while in the original the joints are turned inward with the 'hands' outward.  After Han shoots the first time and ducks, the camera quickly cuts back to the probe droids, and in your version, the appendages are exactly as the original's.  While we see some movement of its appendages just before that, there is no way they could have moved so suddenly to that position in that brief split second.  I'll post pics later.

TV's Frink said:

I don't...wonder...

Tony Wonder said:

Did somebody say "wonder"?

SEE ALSO: Luke Misses Grappling Hook Throw

emanswfan said:

Actually I remember seeing that shot once too, it's weird though i'm not sure where it is from either.

There is no evidence of the shot you speak of, & we've pretty much scoured all of the possible versions.

I agree with Ady.

I don't think we're sure yet. I imagine once Ady gets down to it, he'll surprise us all by creating new models and such.

Hey, it's me. said:

Do you know different?

Hey, it's me. said:

I don't think you can really describe robots as slaves. They were built for their specific duty. They weren't kidnapped from a planet where robots of all kinds roam free and do as they wish and forced into a life of servitude. :-D

Or maybe Vader has been on there the whole time, just staring at Veers silently, tapping his foot. ;-)

Story-telling wise, 3PO getting blasted is so they don't have to figure out "but what is 3PO going to say about this without ruining the dramatic tension?" Notice how 3PO isn't around or is shut down for nearly every dramatic scene in the OT. Obi-Wan tells Luke about his father, 3PO is shut down. Han and Leia discuss where to hide, 3PO is shut down. The gang is captured by Vader, 3PO is in pieces. Think of his dialog during the carbonite scene, its expository and kind of goofy. It would be really hard to have him being quiet unless he was shut down/not present.

If I were to write Star Trek / Star Wars "Marty Stu" Fan Fiction, it would be about a disgraced Star Destroyer fleet left in the Unknown Regions before by Thrawn, finding a wormhole to the Milky Way there, reporting it to the New Republic, and becoming the New Republic ambassadors to the Federation.

I may or may not have started that story in high school.

Ronster said:

I have a question....

In the new Vader Hologram will Vader say anything?

I always thought it was a bit weird that he was just there... And correct me if I am wrong but Vader calls Veers and says nothing... like a bit of a prank caller. Although I suppose Holo-phones you would have to hide from the camera as well as remain silent to pull that one... Anyway If he were to say something i.e. one word like "General" or "Report" to trigger Veers statement might this improve it slightly?

If it stays as in the original I have no beef with that but I thought I would ask the question and make a small minor audio suggestion too for the scene which might make it feel a bit more natural and more normal. 

Finally finished Arrested Development Season 4. (Finally? It's been a week.)

Overall, I liked it. It has some pacing problems towards the middle, but like I said a couple posts ago, knowing exactly how much time they had to fill and no limits in writing means that it's more of a 8 hour movie than 15 episodes of a TV show. I think they might have turned out better had they kept themselves to a 22-23 minute timeframe, as some episodes are pushing 40.

What I appreciate most is that they didn't just keep running the old running gags. Each one got a shout out, but the running gags in this season were new. It takes some guts to pretty much ignore the gags people have been quoting incessantly for the last 5 years, which honestly have gotten a little tired.

As for it being the lead up to a movie, I still don't see how a movie of Arrested Development would work. There is just too much ground to cover. It would take 2 hours for someone to have never seen AD to get caught up, then the movie would be over. If they're still doing that idea, I guess they have something in mind.

Thrawn was sent to chart the Unknown Regions just before RotJ, according to "Heir to the Empire". So it came from Zahn, I believe.