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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] I don't think the examples are misconceived, because they're merely changing the plot and a little bit of characterization, which are only aspects of the story. The visual items influence the way a viewer perceives the story likewise. It's just that you seem to perceive the work of the VFX people and the artists as almost irrelevant to what is nothing less than a visual medium, as opposed to a book. They do choose their ship sizes and models carefully given their budget. They may not have the movie budget that allows them to build new models to perfect scale, but they do the best they can, sometimes better than the writers. Every ship is designed or used to make it fit the story under the budget, and is not a matter of "let's see, do we want an Oberth or an Excelsior today?" In talking to Gary Hutzel, David Stipes, and reading all of the behind-the-scenes interviews, I never got the impression that their work is disconnected from the story. Furthermore, just because the VFX aren't produced under a movie budget doesn't mean that they're wrong. Only a viewer who sees the million Oberths and Excelsiors as artifacts of a certain budget will ignore them, and that's people who know too much about the way the VFX was produced and unreasonably want the TV show to be produced under a movie budget. The budget limitation merely defines the kind of story that will or won't be told -- we've seen numerous examples where certain stories were abandoned because they didn't fit the budget or the VFX abilities. That's why the VFX vendor had to be changed on DS9 when the story suddenly required fleet shots. Every once in a while, a casual viewer does notice these things. She notices that the Defiant has four decks in the background MSD. Its having twenty decks would create quite a different impression of the ship and by extension the story. There's the whole thing in literary analysis about finding new things in the text on subsequent readings, and this is one example of it. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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