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noir
Posts: 558
Crewe, England, United Kingdom
People sit and talk really loudly, and argue, eating buckets of popcorn, as though no one was there.
As if that would happen in real life.
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Justin
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Fort Collins, Colorado, US
I agree with the time distinctions in Star Trek, as well as the notion that all aliens speak English. Yes, I know about the Universal Translator - which can apparently make alien's mouths synch up to the translations. BodyshotsNYNude wrote:
(PS: why the American military designations?) This was Roddenberry. He wanted US Navy designations. In the original series, everybody on board was a qualified astronaut, hence an officer. In TNG, the officers were the ones who went to Star Fleet Academy, but the enlisted guys were in amazingly short supply. The only one I remember was Chief (Miles) O'Brien, and apparently Chief was the only enlisted rank.
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BodyshotsNYNude
Posts: 80
Babylon, New York, US
Justin wrote:
This was Roddenberry. He wanted US Navy designations. Didn't Roddenberry realize that Aliens don't give a Snarrzle's ass about the U.S. Navy?
Don't forget that the guy in the red shirt (Kowalski?) always got killed first. Probably an enlisted man.
That's what we need now: the Universal Translator. Perhaps we could get the Islamic radicals to understand the rest of the world and vice-verse.
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Grady Richardson
Posts: 278
Houston, Texas, US
Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote:
Even in otherwise well-made sci fi movies, in scenes of the space ship traveling through space, you can hear the engine sounds. I guess sci fi directors in this regard elevate convention over physics. When they did the original Enterprise fly-by in Star Trek:TOS, they did it silently, but didn't think it had enough impact. They added a "woosh" sound.
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Grady Richardson
Posts: 278
Houston, Texas, US
The Spaces Between wrote:
this bugged me too. i guess maybe ghosts are still reacting as if they were still alive and they remember walking, standing on things but they can mentally accpe they are ghosts enough to walk through walls?
As for the Star Trek episode, i had the same thought. Only thing i could think of is if the gravity fields being created by the floors someone was still able to react on their phased bodies so they could not float through the floors. other than those guesses, it made no sense. ha Actually, it's worse than that in the Star Trek episode. The idea is that the two crew members are "out of phase" with normal matter, so they are invisible and can walk through walls. Two HUGE problems with that: 1. if they are invisible to normal people because they are out of phase, then why can they see normal matter - shouldn't it be invisible to them? 2. If their out-of-phase matter doesn't interact with normal matter, then how can they breathe normal air?
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Grady Richardson
Posts: 278
Houston, Texas, US
BodyshotsNYNude wrote:
Hey, Even Godzilla had to pee... Okay, there's an image that going to stay in my head a while!
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Fotticelli
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Rockville, Maryland, US
JadeDRed wrote:
That came across a cynical comment on the disneyfication of animals ... We got a cat when my daughter was about 2. When she first met the cat she started crying because the cat wouldn't talk to her.
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Thomas Art Studio
Posts: 97
Carthage, Tennessee, US
JJMiller wrote:
This isn't a movie or book, but I've been watching the Walking Dead and one thing that is bothering me is the transmission of the disease. A bite or a scratch infects, but apparently blood does not? Really? One scene a guy has a huge gash in his arm, another guy shoots a zombie and lays him on top of the wounded guy, who does not get infected. Besides the fact that there is always zombie blood flying all over the place, on people's faces and onto their battle wounded bodies. The characters should be wearing biohazard suits in the Southern heat obviously  Did you miss the reveal of what the guy at the CDC told Rick?
It is not transmitted by blood or a bite, everyone is already infected, if they get a serious enough injury and die, unless they died of massive head trauma that destroys the brain, the infection is activated and they turn or more aptly return from death as a walker. Though Rick was told about the fact everyone is infected during the first season it was after the fall of the farm, but before they found the prison that Rick told the group what he had been told at the CDC.
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Top Level Studio
Posts: 3254
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote:
Even in otherwise well-made sci fi movies, in scenes of the space ship traveling through space, you can hear the engine sounds. I guess sci fi directors in this regard elevate convention over physics. The unrealistic sound of engines somehow makes the scenes seem more realistic.
If you watch any "making of" shows, when the actors on the spaceship set are speaking their lines with no sound at all in the background, you may find, as I do, that it sounds fake, or like a stage play, not a sci-fi movie.
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John Photography
Posts: 13811
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Grady Richardson wrote:
Actually, it's worse than that in the Star Trek episode. The idea is that the two crew members are "out of phase" with normal matter, so they are invisible and can walk through walls. Two HUGE problems with that: 1. if they are invisible to normal people because they are out of phase, then why can they see normal matter - shouldn't it be invisible to them? 2. If their out-of-phase matter doesn't interact with normal matter, then how can they breathe normal air? And don't forget the light spectrum....... They would also have trouble seeing wht everyone else sees in their "out of phase" state.
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