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Posted 22 March 2005 - 02:39 PM

I was working on an idea where the PT ships should be larger than the ones of the OT.

I mean, compared to Luke's X-Wing fighter, Obi-Wan's Jedi Fighter is tiny, tiny, tiny. If anything, it ought to be bigger, clumsier?

I.e., compare the Cadillacs of old to the ones of today...

Just trying to work this out in my head...

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 03:55 PM

yeah, the jedi starfighters are tiny, and are the same size in episode III - the size of a car. everything's smaller in the prequels, even the star destroyers.
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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.
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Posted 22 March 2005 - 08:23 PM

the shiny PT ships are like 1950s cars with fins and curves and well... shiny.

then you have the millenium falcon which is like a big 70s Ford, in the late 80s.


that works for me.
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 10:26 AM

Actually, it makes sense (to me) that the "Queen's Yacht" and the larger cruiser are nice and shiny - both are state vessels. I mean, they're used for transporting senators and heads of state to and from official meetings. These are the Naboo equivalent of Air Force One, and are likely kept spotless by fairly large crews. The queen's ship has very strong shields, but no armament - again very similar to the way that Air Force One is tricked out.

The Millenium Falcon is inhabited by a deep-in-debt smuggler and a Wookie. I shudder to think about the last time it might have been cleaned.

I have an issue with the overall "clean" look everywhere in the prequels, since CGI looks clean whereas models can be made dirty, but these ships seem to fit well into the context for me.
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 10:31 AM

Actually, there is an old Joe Johnson sketch (I think he did it) of the Tantive IV which has an interesting resemblence to the Queen's ship. I'll dig it up later and post it if I can...


As I've said before, though----I can forgive design if the STORY, CONTINUITY AND CHARACTERS ARE GOOD---That's the issue I have with these things.

This post has been edited by CowboyCurtis: 23 March 2005 - 10:40 AM

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