Aesop wrote:Perhaps, but to be fair, Rodenberry had to helpfully die first.
I was watching ST:TNG reruns on BBC America recently. They were running the season one episodes, which were particularly lame (Picard surrendered the Enterprise twice in the first four episodes, IIRC). The next to last episode (I think) of the season was Conspiracy, where alien parasites were taking over Starfleet flag officers. The ending of the episode was considered shocking and very graphic at the time. I always wondered what somebody slipped in Roddenberry's fruit juice to make the show take such a turn, I think it's when the show grew up and found itself.
Mimic a recently successful movie for plot line (this can be a good thing)
Jam as much "LOOK! STAR WARS!" in there as possible (this will be a bad thing)
Kommander wrote:I noticed the cross guard too. Also the plasma or whatever looks rather ragged. The cross guard is not a bad idea, just having it mounted on protrusions like that would not work well.
A cross guard capable of protecting your fingers is not a bad idea. A cross guard capable of removing your fingers, is.
Cognosce teipsum et disce pati
"People come and go in our lives, especially the online ones. Some leave a fond memory, and some a bad taste." -Aesop
Given the fact that the thing can carry its power supply in a grip, and the blade(s) have no weight penalty, a proper lightsaber should look like swinging a pine tree, with "blades" coming out every which way, and if necessary, tethered to a larger body-pack power supply. Darth Maul gets fed into a blender despite his ballet moves in 0.2 seconds. While he's blocking one blade, the other 47 sweep him aside like Andre The Giant swatting him to the fences with a sword that looks like a friggin' Christmas tree made of cactus.
At that point the Clone Wars battles are simply a target-rich environment.
Game over.
I also want to see lightsaber motion activated mines: trip the sensor, and feel three feet of energy shooting up (down, sideways) into to your giblets, then shutting off again in 10 seconds and resetting. Jump flip over 50 feet of those, mofos. They can do hyperspace, but nobody thought of this shit? Puh-lease.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Went to see Phantom Menace on its opening night, a sold out theatre, and an enthusiastic crowd of SW fans.
Fell asleep after the pod race, and didn't wake up until the final battle when Anakin climbs into a spaceship and somehow turns off the droid army.
Sure I'd been working 70-hour weeks for a month or two.
But the movie was not worth the effort.
I think I watched Attack of the Clones on a Freeperview weekend on Cinemaxx from a TiVo.
I don't recall even bothering to watch the third one at all.
Probably won't watch these next until they are on a Freeperview also.
Aesop wrote:Given the fact that the thing can carry its power supply in a grip, and the blade(s) have no weight penalty, a proper lightsaber should look like swinging a pine tree, with "blades" coming out every which way, and if necessary, tethered to a larger body-pack power supply. Darth Maul gets fed into a blender despite his ballet moves in 0.2 seconds. While he's blocking one blade, the other 47 sweep him aside like Andre The Giant swatting him to the fences with a sword that looks like a friggin' Christmas tree made of cactus.
At that point the Clone Wars battles are simply a target-rich environment.
Game over.
I also want to see lightsaber motion activated mines: trip the sensor, and feel three feet of energy shooting up (down, sideways) into to your giblets, then shutting off again in 10 seconds and resetting. Jump flip over 50 feet of those, mofos. They can do hyperspace, but nobody thought of this shit? Puh-lease.
I think you are missing the point of an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Cognosce teipsum et disce pati
"People come and go in our lives, especially the online ones. Some leave a fond memory, and some a bad taste." -Aesop
The X-wing pilot was a year behind my brother at Julliard. Totally trips him out every time he watches the trailer. Light saber crossguard is a cool idea, but badly executed. Also, note no lens flares in the trailer. The Star Trek reboot trailer didn't make it past the 3rd shot (<10 seconds in) before the lens-flarefest starts. Star Wars has a particular 'look', and since he's not getting free license on a 'reboot' this time, Abrams will likely can 99.99% of the lens flare nonsense. The mouse joketh not.
Aesop wrote:I also want to see lightsaber motion activated mines: trip the sensor, and feel three feet of energy shooting up (down, sideways) into to your giblets, then shutting off again in 10 seconds and resetting. Jump flip over 50 feet of those, mofos. They can do hyperspace, but nobody thought of this shit? Puh-lease.
AKA Ringo's Bouncing Barbies?
like Barbie, they just up and cut you off at the knees if you get anywhere near them. You know she would. The cold-eyed bitch.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
