Posted 22 March 2005 - 04:00 PM
I can't see the problem with shiny ships...
If you have 2 hours to tell a story you have to do some of the set up quickly. Therefore rich and peaceful planets should be clean and neat, have a few trees and flowers around, have big piazzas full of well dressed smiling people, and shiny ships. With everybody pissing and moaning about "show me, George, don't tell me", this shouldn't be another thing to hate about Phantom Menace. What the hell else should he do to show a "civilised and peaceful planet?"
Also, there isn't an inevitable march of progress to history. Greece preceded Rome, Rome preceded the dark ages, Czarist Russia preceded the Commies, etc. If you compare a 2000 Humvee with ( Lotus Seven, Sunbeam Alpine, whatever) you culdn't say that we have tastefully progressed.
Most normal people go to the movies and want their heroes to wear white, their princesses beautiful, and their wolves ravening. It's mindless entertainment, and that's all.
What about the stupid argument a while back in this forum about which actors would be good jedi knights? Only suggestions were samurai actors from the Tom Cruise Movie or warriors from Lord of the Rings. Just boring re hash stereotypical rubbish for stereotypical roles. Nobody thinks "Pee Wee Herman, he'd make a good Jedi!" Everybody is guilty of being obvious, and so what?
Besides all that crap, that shiny ship of the Princess was pretty damn cool. I wouldn't have designed the ships that way myself , so therefore I liked it.
At this point, unpredictability is all we have left.