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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] It's funny. When Lucus did the special editions of Star Wars, lots of fans complained, saying that all they wanted was the original footage cleaned up, with no new bits put in. When CBS does exactly to TNG what many people wanted Lucus to do to Star Wars, fans complained. Fans are dicks. [QUOTE]Originally posted by o2: [qb][saying] we don't have to change it for TNG-R is only a cheap excuse in my opinon and does not make it better. I was under the impresson that one reason why Mike Okuda is with CBS for this restoration is that certain errors in the past would be corrected. I think I have shown how this could have been done with a minimum of effort. But obviously CBS is not willing to go that way. Sad, but this is the world we are living in. [/qb][/QUOTE]You can complain all you want that CBS are not doing the things that they always said they weren't going to do, but it doesn't make the argument any less silly. But, to follow on from Dukhat above... there's a hell of a big difference between changing some text on a computer screen (or swapping out a wireframe graphic of a refit-Constitution with an original-Constition), and adding in CGI ships, no matter how tiny. The first example corrects a mistake. The second [i]changes the shot[/i], which they are not going to do without a really, really good reason. And so far, "because I wanted to see a class of ship that was never seen on the original show" is not a good reason. Saying "cheap excuse" is also ridiculous. Paramount would have realised that they could have made money from making HD versions of TNG episodes and selling them on blu-ray/to TV stations, and so allocated a budget to do so. Not giving CBS the money to do more changes is not being "cheap", it is making a financial decision. They don't owe you CGI ships. You may say that you have shown how you could do it with the minimum of effort, but do you know the hourly salary of the people who would design a ship? What software would be used? Whether the time it took to do that would have taken time away from another task? (For example, I'm pretty sure that CBS know about ALL the reversed registries seen over a season. If they have the time and the budget they try and fix them, but if fixing a phaser blast is more important, they'll do that instead. They only have finite resources). Fans of all kinds will sit there and blame companies for being "lazy", without knowing any of the details. It is annoying. And saying "Sad, but this is the world we are living in" is just bizarre. What world are we living in? Where companies put out a product that pleases some people and annoys others? Yes, that is exactly the world we live in. (Oddly enough, skimming over the start of this thread from two years ago, o2 seems to be going for the "just clean up the original footage" argument, and Dukhat seems to be going for "it'll look like shit, replace it all". Freaky Friday!) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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