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Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Riceball
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There's a YouTube channel that does a lot of videos where they poke fun at various RPG tropes and one of them is the bikini armor trope. They have a video where a female character gets the stereotypical bikini armor, is annoyed/disgusted by it but ends up wearing it because of the stats. In the next scene you see her standing around while being shot at with bows and all of the arrows only hit the bikini top.
Viva La Dirt League. Epic NPC Man.
The specific video was called "Sexist Armour" but I can't seem to find it. But here's a related one from the same series.
That channel is very funny especially if you're a gamer or have worked retail.
When sci-fi / space fantasy films mix the terms "galaxy" and "universe" interchangeably.
Por ejemplo: Here's a theatrical poster for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The tag line is: "At the end of the universe lies the beginning of vengeance"
Ummm... no.... the MAJORITY of the Star Trek films and TV episodes take place in the Milky Way galaxy. Specifically, the alpha and beta quadrants of Star Trek nomenclature. Voyager took place in the delta quadrant of the Milky Way. There have been times when event(s) occurred in another galaxy, but the majority of adventures have been limited to the 19% of the explored Milky Way (as mentioned by Wesley Crusher), and are nowhere REMOTELY to the nth degree near the "end" of the universe.
Estimates are up to 2 trillion galaxies in the known/observable universe. Starfleet is not exploring "the universe" in any real sense, certainly no more than by swimming in a Fort Lauderdale canal that I am somehow "exploring" the Atlantic Ocean.
Khan was marooned on Ceti Alpha V, the fifth planet of the Ceti Alpha system, in Sector 25712 of the Alpha Quadrant. I don't even think the Ceti system was on the edge/end of the Milky Way galaxy. Spock would be the first to address this: the Milky Way galaxy is NOT at the end of the known universe, Khan did NOT come from the end of the universe (or even the edge of the Milky Way), so the above tag line makes no logical sense.
Por ejemplo: Here's a theatrical poster for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The tag line is: "At the end of the universe lies the beginning of vengeance"
Ummm... no.... the MAJORITY of the Star Trek films and TV episodes take place in the Milky Way galaxy. Specifically, the alpha and beta quadrants of Star Trek nomenclature. Voyager took place in the delta quadrant of the Milky Way. There have been times when event(s) occurred in another galaxy, but the majority of adventures have been limited to the 19% of the explored Milky Way (as mentioned by Wesley Crusher), and are nowhere REMOTELY to the nth degree near the "end" of the universe.
Estimates are up to 2 trillion galaxies in the known/observable universe. Starfleet is not exploring "the universe" in any real sense, certainly no more than by swimming in a Fort Lauderdale canal that I am somehow "exploring" the Atlantic Ocean.
Khan was marooned on Ceti Alpha V, the fifth planet of the Ceti Alpha system, in Sector 25712 of the Alpha Quadrant. I don't even think the Ceti system was on the edge/end of the Milky Way galaxy. Spock would be the first to address this: the Milky Way galaxy is NOT at the end of the known universe, Khan did NOT come from the end of the universe (or even the edge of the Milky Way), so the above tag line makes no logical sense.
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In movies, if someone is injured and they spit up blood, that means their wound is fatal.
In movies, when someone coughs up blood, it means they have cancer. And it's usually fatal.
In movies, when someone has a spontaneous nosebleed and there is some background tone, that means they are being hit by an alien/secret weapon. And it is fatal.
If there isn't a background tone, it's not a weapon, and isn't fatal. It's just a nosebleed. Unless it's an anime then a nosebleed means something else entirely.
In movies, when someone coughs up blood, it means they have cancer. And it's usually fatal.
In movies, when someone has a spontaneous nosebleed and there is some background tone, that means they are being hit by an alien/secret weapon. And it is fatal.
If there isn't a background tone, it's not a weapon, and isn't fatal. It's just a nosebleed. Unless it's an anime then a nosebleed means something else entirely.
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Yes... in anime, a nosebleed usually means that their super human power is about to materialize for the first time. Get ready for body morphin' time!
How did that trope get started, anyway? I have never heard of horniness causing that in real life.
Riceball
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The art has to do with what's visually appealing and who or what you want the focus to be on. Since Johnny Depp is the biggest name and plays by far the most popular character in the franchise you naturally want his image front and center. Notice how his face is not only front and center, it's also larger than the other people in the image so that viewer is more likely to notice him first.
I think the more obvious and not so subtle meaning of picture vs title position is when a person is in the photo, prominently, but does not appear by name on the poster. In those instances serious infighting is already underway. Often leading to a lot of cutting room floor material and a few interviews on entertainment shows.
I watched a Youtube video the other day where they were showing the locations of various scifi places on a map (DS9, Babylon 5, Vulcan, the planet from Aliens, etc.). I was not aware in ST that the quadrants were literally quadrants of our solar system. I thought when they went through the wormhole in DS9 it was going to a different solar system!
Bloop
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Reminds me of the Reno 911 episode called "super knockers." The female officers get new body armor, which, shall we say, accentuates a certain part of their anatomy.
The kicker was, they eventually found out the vests didn't actually work, they didn't stop bullets at all...
I get your point. It's assumed that we just "get" what they are referring to. But as a quick primer:
1) Our Solar System is comprised of: Our sun, 8 planets (Earth is number 3 from the sun) and the planetoid Pluto.
2) The other Star Trek alien life forms live in OTHER "solar systems" with their own sun(s) and orbiting planets, such as the Vulcans, Ferengi, Klingons, etc. Technically these other suns and planets are termed "planetary systems", as the Earth's system is the only officially named Solar System... but you get the point.
3) So, ST alien races live in other "solar" systems, not ours. In Sci-Fi shows, you will often here our Solar System referred to as the "Sol" System.
4) Essentially ALL of the ST aliens live with us in the same Galaxy (the Milky Way, which is comprised of 100s of billions of planets), but different solar systems.
5) Our Milky Way galaxy has a giant but somewhat dormant black hole at its center, named Sagittarius A.
6) The observed Universe has an estimated 2 trillion galaxies
7) ST wormholes connect different parts of the Milky Way galaxy; sometimes different quadrants, sometimes the same. I am NOT sure if any ST movie or TV show has ever had a wormhole connect 2 different GALAXIES or not; that would be like a subway connecting two different continents.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
Initially, both Star Trek Voyager and Stargate (the film) were taking place in other galaxies.
Somehow Voyager ended up in the delta quadrant which was no longer in another galaxy, but far far away.
Stargate SG -1 tales place mostly in our own galaxy for some reason.
Somehow Voyager ended up in the delta quadrant which was no longer in another galaxy, but far far away.
Stargate SG -1 tales place mostly in our own galaxy for some reason.
And here I thought it was creamy nougat topped with caramel.
DAMN you Mars Corporation! You lied to me!!!!
drusselmeyer
Master Member
I thought that was in response to rei now calling herself Skywalker.
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