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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] "Compare that to the continuity Lucas maintained between TPM and the other movies. I was stunned when I saw that he even kept the same font in the opening crawl." Because, at the end of the day, the font didn't look dated. So it could be kept. If the font had been some late 70s LED looking thing, it would have been replaced, because it would have looked horrible. The font Trek used for TMP looked fine, and was still being used for Voyager, over 20 years later. "None of the changes they made in CGI techniques or vessels seriously affects the perception that this movie is a part of the other three." The thing is, a lot of Star Wars is set on planetary surfaces, out in the open. You don't need to change Tatooine to look more modern, because it isn't suppossed to be modern. That's a world away from the fairly huge problem of trying to design a bridge to look futuristic, but less futuristic that a similar set designed 35 years ago that now looks slightly quaint. (And, as an aside, there are a fair few arguements for TMP rewriting cannon, even in regards to the films. Obi-Wan was trained by Yoda, and took it upon himself to train Anakin, against Obi-Wan being trained by Qui-Gon, and considering Anakin to be an annoying little shit. Sure, you can argue that they might get resolved, but I'd put money that some won't, and will require the fans to jump through hoops to explain them). Also, I do actually find a lot of ANH to look dated compared to ESB and ROTJ. The starship sets in particular. The Death Star never convinced me internally, especially compared to the far superiour sets used for the Star Destroyers in ESB. And compare the graphics of the Death Stars that the Rebels look at in ANH and ROTJ. That's a fairly big tecnology jump in 4 years of story-time. Tim mentions in another thread that watching TOS today is occasionally hard, because the dated nature of the show ruins the suspension of disbelief that you've built up. If [i]Enterprise[/i] had tried to look like a prequel to TOS (or like 30s Flash Gorden), the problem would have been even worse. In the end, the difference comes down to tecnology. [i]Enterprise[/i] has to look tecnologically inferior to TOS, without looking stupid. The SW prequels don't, because they aren't about the tecnology. And because they aren't our future. And we had enough people complaining that the Naboo fighters should have looked more like Z-95 Headhunters anyway... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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