Those ships always reminded me of big flying toilets for some reason. :lol
Good lord I hate the idea that capital ships can operate in atmosphere. I was lost the moment I saw the JJprise being built on earth. I feel like they lost a very important factor when they did that.
Remember when the Galactica dropped in on new Caprica? That was the most badass capital ship maneuver in sci-fi history
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The JJprise is a slap in the face of everyone who worked on the original idea of the Enterprise, they knew having those giant ships on a planet made no sense on top of being hard to do effects wise. Heck Voyager only did it once and that was a gimmick to get people to watch.
The original are probably the scariest bad guy of all time. Even scarier than the Borg.I have seen them being referred to as toilet seats [emoji38]
I never personally thought of them as that though [emoji14] I just saw them as big lethal ships that one want to get away from
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You know when you are watching a film and something happens that make no sense what so ever in the context of the story but hey yes it looks really cool? Watch this art panel from Celebration 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBymKM8y0q0. Visuals ARE driving story rather than the other way around a bit more often than in the past.
It kind of explains why the stories we get are often weaker than we might expect and why certain scenes just feel like they are stuck in there against all common sense. Pay attention to the guy at 12 minutes in where he gives his reasons why the B Brick was designed as it was and it also shows just how aware of feedback from the public forums production staff are these days,
The original are probably the scariest bad guy of all time. Even scarier than the Borg.
I loved those two seasons so much. The good guys just kept losing.
So much that when they finally took out a ship in "Atlantis" it was actually a celebratory moment
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Cerberus, bad! Nice painting. But it's no Destiny Ascension.I don't know a damn thing about the game, but the Mass Effect ship struck me as very nice when I first saw it.
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I have always attributed the change happened as they drifted away from using actual Industrial Designers working on the renderings and just using artists to come up with the ideas. Sure artists can come up with some visually pleasing designs in a painting, but often it doesn't translate well in dimension. The use of Industrial Designers like they did back in the early Star Wars films made these ships feel real and as if they could actually function in the real world. These designers knew how to think about all aspects of the machine, how it would work and how it would actually get constructed. It wasn't just a pretty flat picture to them.
The only ship I can recall that said "Star Wars" to me was the cruiser Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon arrive on. Everything else in the film looks like it's from some other movie series. You see less of that as the series progresses and design starts to conform closer to what was seen in the OT, but even that stuff looked...I dunno...kinda off. The ARC-170s, the Jedi starfighters (Eta and Delta class), the Republic Cruisers, they all just look a little...hmm...not quite right to me. Like, their design doesn't naturally dovetail into what you see in the OT, to me. Even with some intervening years.
They're perfectly interesting designs, in my opinion. They just don't all say "Star Wars." I mean, they do NOW, because you have them IN Star Wars, but I think ships like, say, the ones seen in the X-wing Alliance game look way more "Star Warsy" than what you see in the PT.
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Also totally agreed! There was a lot of creativity seen in the PT but almost all of it missed the mark for me. A lot of the ships were obviously meant to show some lineage to the later OT stuff but very little really made much sense. So much of it also looked far more advanced than what we got 20 years later in the OT.
@batguy, the Rebel Blockade runner was actually the Millennium Falcon at one point with the hammerhead bridge replaced by the Falcon's cockpit, then Space 1999 came out and they decided to redesign so as to not make it seem as they emulated the Eagle (just thought you would find that little nugget of info interesting if you didn't already know )
As much as it pains me to say, nothing from the new SW movie grabs me besides the new trooper helmet and Tie Fighter Pilot helmets. The rest was a compromise.