Tobar said:
I think this list does an excellent job of breaking down the nonsense that is Trek 09.
Yes, those are probably the 15 worst problems, but still they're not the ONLY problems :)
1) Data is not "just software" - an android is something absolutely different than just software
2) There is no chance that you can create an intelligent hologram. A hologram which will be able to KNOW he/she/it is a hologram. A hologram which will be able to correctly react to ANY situation. It's just NOT possible. Not even theoretically. That's the problem. The Doctor was "too perfect" to be real. His reaction most of the time should be "I am not programmed to correctly reply to your question". That has absolutely nothing to do with science fiction, it's just fiction, more precisely a fairytale.
Do you remember the Minuete (? - sorry I can't really remember the correct spelling of her name) character from the Bynar episode from TNG's first season? She was programmed to seduce men, especially Riker and she was GREAT at it. BUT ... when they tried to get any other information from her, her response was something like "I don't know, it's not a part of my programming" - and that is absolutely CORRECT and absolutely BELIEVABLE. The Doctor however was able to react to ANY situation, which is just impossible. Not "impossible NOW", simply IMPOSSIBLE.
Jazz - well, everybody likes different music and different historical eras, that's absolutely normal. But as I said I can't stand songs in movies or TV shows. Vic was singing, that means in my view he was wasting my time. Simple as that.
Well why don't I like Vic? I've been thinking about it and these are some of the conclusions I came up with
- singing - I hate singing in movies. Or TV shows. If I'm at home I always try to find the "fast forward" or "next chapter" buttons on my remote. I have nothing against songs or music in general, I just feel they don't belong into "normal" movies & shows - they belong to musicals
- jazz in general - maybe if he would sing something of the 350 genres I like, I would be able to at least tolerate him.
- his "bar" or what is the correct term - it seems to me like a bad version of Quark's bar. I love Quark's bar, that was a very interesting and funny place. The holographic "jazz club" isn't. Why is it even there?
- why do they have 2 bars? Seriously from a story telling point of view, what sense does it make? There was just one episode I can remember LIKING which had the holographic club in it, and that was the "Ocean's eleven" type of episode where they stole money from the new owner
Some of you have suggested I have something against inteligent holograms. Well I started to think about all intelligent holograms which were in the franchise starting with Minnuet (or whatever the spelling is) in the Bynar episode of TNG, and ending with Robert Picardo's doctor, and I really wanted to write you a list of intelligent holograms I like. And then I realised the list is empty. Yes, I don't like ANY intelligent hologram they used on "modern" Star Trek. I don't really know why, maybe it's a sort of a "professional deformation" - I know what it's possible to program and what not. And if I can't BELIEVE a character, I can't LIKE the character. I can't actually get any emotional involvement with the character, so episodes like when the doctor wanted to fight for rights of other holograms - WTF?
Don't these guys realize that in the timeline where this series takes place there are no Jedi except Kenobi and Yoda? And nobody else with a ligthsabre? :-(
It's Neelix, not Nelix.
And yes, I hate his character. The funny thing that Voyager is the first show where I hated main or secondary characters.
- Neelix
- that little girl - Naomi? The first time I was hoping a character dies
- the borg kids - another time I was hoping I see a character die on screen
- the holographic doctor - I must admit that I like Picardo's performance, there's something about the character that I just hate. Maybe the fact that they portrait him as a character, even though he's supposed to be a piece of software
- that annoying bitch Neelix used to date in the first episodes - can't remember her name, I just found her extremely annoying
- I originally hated Janeway, Chacotay and Tuvok, but I learned to accept them over the years. ACCEPT them, NOT LIKE them.
I think the only characters I liked on Voyager were Tom Paris and Harry Kim. Which is weird. I used to love all TOS characters. I used to love all TNG characters (including Wesley, who seemed to be hated by the "general public"). Then Voyager came with its horrible characters. And then they brought a horrible character to DS9 - that jazz singing idiot - I can't remember his name - I absolutely hated that guy and can't understand why they gave him more and more space. Absolutely useless and badly written character.
Hm, interesting result, now to combine it with example 6 from here : http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Script_examples ... and it could get really good :)
Interesting, I'll try it and let you know if it's helpful :)
Can some of you Avisynth experts help me with this one?
I started a youtube channel where I try to post comparison videos of the classic Star Trek episodes, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVO_FV66VctfXLf9ClmrEg .
I have an avisynth script prepared which stacks the 2 videos side by side, but I have to do a manual comparison of both videos. Because it's manual work, it takes a lot of time and there is a BIG chance I will miss some of the changes. Is there a way how to do this in Avisynth?
I thought that I could maybe do something with overlays or something similar ....
What I am trying to achieve is a video, which will FOR EXAMPLE be black when the two videos are identical, and FOR EXAMPLE be white when there is ANY change on that frame.
In other words, I want to know immediately if the frame is identical in both versions or if there are any differences (the black and white frames are just examples, I don't care HOW will I get the information). Or maybe is there a chance to write a LOG FILE from Avisynth? You know, a file which would contain just the numbers of the frames which are different?
Could somebody help me with this? Thanks a lot
emanswfan said:
So wait, the GOUT doesn't have the original mix?
Nope. It's the 1993 version of the movie with everything, including different colouring, darkening of some scenes, the horrible noise reduction and the 1993 stereo remix. The only "change" they done was a last minute change of the 1977 crawl to Star Wars, otherwise the movies are the 1993 versions
Octorox said:
Um, isn't the 81 version just the 77 version with the Episode IV crawl and a slightly different sound mix?
Doesn't it have also different colouring? You know like the artificial darkening of the "R2 in the canyon" sequence, or the different colours of the binary sunset sequence ....
And the shot were the fighters take off to fight the Death Star was redone - I don't remember if it was for the 1978 mono mix version or for the 1981 version.
I hope she will be played by Nana Visitor
So definitely NOT 2004?
timdiggerm said:
Eh, those lightsaber blades look 2004 to me.
Really??? They look MUCH better than I remember - but the truth is I haven't seen it since 2004
I haven't heard the DVD mixes for many, MANY years but I remember the most distracting thing for me were the different takes. There were scenes, where literally each line of one man's monologue was taken from a different take! So each line was in differrent pitch, different speed, different sound quality, different tone ... For example when Tarkin speaks to Leia, or when Han talks to the gang on the Falcon during the holographic chess scene etc.
The 2011 mix is much better because Matt Wood who did it KNOWS what fans hate :-) And he intentionally fixed or "minimised" the stuff
It definitely needs some stabilization, but I like the colours as they are
Harmy said:
I'm using Firefox and have absolutely no trouble with it.
Actually I'm using Firefox too and I DO have trouble with it.
The problem is that the URL
http://s25.postimg.org/ezzxpmfil/Purple.png
gets translated into the URL
http://postimg.org/image/okjkci4uj/
Which is actually an HTML page showing the image, not the image itself.
The URL of the image itself is
http://s25.postimg.org/qccj7eo7h/Purple.png
So I'm not sure why for some people the first URL gets redirected and for others not, it should be a server setting independent from the client, shouldn't it?
Category: animals :)
Love it
team_negative1 said:
Luke sells his landspeeder, and a spy watches them:
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2BMSRPGc44Fcl8hktc
Team Negative1
I have seen both this and the new Empire clip and there is something very weird with the picture. I don't know the correct English terms right now, but the bright parts are too bright (all the bright parts actually "meld" into white) and all the dark parts are basically black.
Yes, the amount of material is a bit shocking :) And I have immediately found some duplicates, you were correct.
So now - who is going to upload this to myspleen? And which files will be dropped ? I am willing to co-seed but since the stuff is so big, I don't want to be the ONLY seeder with my upload speed
So wait a moment ...
Version 2.0 will be out next week and will have rounded corners and be AVCHD, and version 2.5 will be in mkv and will be out ... when? Days? Weeks? Months? And then there will be a version 3.0 when you get more 35mm sources?
Correct?
Sorry but I am totally confused by the numbering here
Not sure if you guys have seen this but I think it's brilliant :-)
Death Star destroys the Enterprise: http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/05/16/death-star-destroys-enterprise-special-edition
So ... 9 months later ... no luck guys?
chyron8472 said:
I don't currently have the WP. And not that I actually care about a couple of pixels, but can someone post a screenshot of exactly what everyone is complaining about?
Really the biggest issue I had with v1.0 is the bleeding/crushed reds from light sources.
Check this comparison gallery : http://postimg.org/gallery/4dk3t698/
In my opinion you will notice the rounded corners only if you search for them. Just open shots from version 1 and 2 in separate tabs and switch between them
I agree with option D :-)
I love the "organic" look of it, much better than the polished washed out look of the blurays