Original Series gets CGI'd
#1
Posted 31 August 2006 - 03:12 PM
I think its cool that we will get the new graphics. The old retro-nostalgic ones are cool, but I've always wanted to see what TOS would look like hyped up. It stinks that it is only HD for now and it will stink if they over do it ala George Lucas.
#2
Posted 31 August 2006 - 04:15 PM
#3
Posted 31 August 2006 - 04:50 PM
Plus Mike and Denise Okuda are in charge of this. They would totally respect the material. I hope they are shown over here in the UK eventually.
#4
Posted 31 August 2006 - 09:28 PM
What I would like, and I was hoping they would have done this for the box set release, was to clean out all the graininess in the pictures. The Enterprise fly overs look so old, and even some of the action on ship or planetside could use some clean up. I want them to leave the phaser fire sound and visual alone, cleaning up messiness or fixing sound when it was incorrectly done is fine.
If it can be done, I am so getting this format, even though I hate change.
#5
Posted 31 August 2006 - 09:36 PM
Hopefully, a lot of that stuff will be cleaned up. I was disapponted when the first DVDs came, supposedly digitally remastered, and there were still grainey shots.
I think it will be well done, like ECH said. The crew working on the project are devoted Trek alum. Its going to be the TOS I fell in love with, only better!
#6
Posted 01 September 2006 - 05:22 AM
#7
Posted 01 September 2006 - 05:27 AM
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#8
Posted 01 September 2006 - 07:36 AM
It seemed that they stuck to the varrious view screens and updated them. They did not try and re-envision anything just added more to based on what we know and the new technology.
If anything I think it made the TOS look a bit more techy than Enterprise... which it should be... and helps to fix continuity issues IMO.
Makes me wish I had HD TV to watch these!
#9
Posted 01 September 2006 - 10:21 AM
I don't understand the negativity about the updated Star Wars. My only regret about them is that they didn't updat the lightsaber fights with something looking a little more spectacular then Alec Guiness vs Dave Prowse in episode 4 or Luke vs his father in episodes 5 and 6.
#10
Posted 01 September 2006 - 10:25 AM
I don't understand the negativity about the updated Star Wars. My only regret about them is that they didn't updat the lightsaber fights with something looking a little more spectacular then Alec Guiness vs Dave Prowse in episode 4 or Luke vs his father in episodes 5 and 6.
How does the original vs airing order make a difference? Is there some congruity issues?
Yeah, I loved most of the updated stuff in Star Wars. The only things that really hacked me off was Hayden Christiansen's appearnace at the end of 6 ... I hated it!
#11
Posted 01 September 2006 - 11:08 AM
Mostly details, like character developement. But the most visible problem with the airing order are the sets, props and uniforms. The first Trek made was "The Cage". Then there was "Where No Man has Gone Before" that visually looked a lot like "The Cage". Then they all got new haircuts (with pointed sideburns), uniforms and props and the sets were modified for "The Corbomite Maneuver", in which the uniforms were way too wide for everyone (they knew the velour was going to shrink).
I can understand them not airing "The Cage" because they used most footage from that episode in "The Menagerie" But wy was "Where No Man..." aired as the 3rd episode, preceded by such later episodes as "The Man trap" and "Charlie X"? When you watch "Where No Man...", you know the events take place before the rest of the episodes!
#12
Posted 05 September 2006 - 08:22 PM
#13
Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:57 PM
I am just kidding Bernsey, but am afraid I was anticipating that in the last post.
DavAnthony, check the weekend or even the next week, they may not have had time to air it on time, and they wouldnt have an inkling of the impact of that air date.
#14
Posted 06 September 2006 - 05:17 AM
#15
Posted 06 September 2006 - 09:22 AM
However, I believe they are a very vocal minority. Most people I've spoken to prefer the newer versions, despite the few mis-steps. I think even more people will prefer the special editions when they see, for the first time in many, many years, the quality of the "Unaltered Editions".
I'm looking forward to the Trek with new effects. I might not rebuy the DVDs on HD, but I definitely wasn't going to before this effort.
#16
Posted 06 September 2006 - 11:14 AM
#17
Posted 06 September 2006 - 03:26 PM
Having windows in Bespin doesn't disconnect it from my childhood memories. In my mind, there probably always were windows there, since I remember Bespin as much from the comics and my imagination as I do from what Lucas put on film in 1980.
Was having Greedo shoot first, or simultaneously on DVD, a bad idea? I think so. But that great shot of the Falcon as it blasts out of Mos Eisley makes up for it.
#18
Posted 06 September 2006 - 06:46 PM
#19
Posted 06 September 2006 - 07:02 PM
#20
Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:26 AM
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