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jbox:
Reminds me of a live action cut-scene in a computer game. I keep expecting the camera to spin around to the 1st person and have to start navigating blondie through the subway dodging monsters.  ;D

Nice find, though I doubt I'd pay for individual episodes. I have however bought a couple of the "Red vs Blue" DVDs so I wouldn't say that they can't make any money from it in the long run. Presuming they can finish the series before everyone goes back to Atlantis.   :cheers:

shorthair:
Definitely agree on those techinical issues patrickl. But you see, the kiddies go gaga for that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I call it the age of hyper-reality. Unreal images of real stuff. They don't want real - they get plenty of that in life and it's unsatisfying. Same for all the animation, comics books, etc, etc....

AS: there's a reason sci-fi has been dubbed 'skiffy': it not only lacks substance (as well as any kind of physical consistency - that is, whatever physics may govern its universe, they make sense); it lacks a quality of story-telling that if you were to read the script, immediately you'd be very interested in it...and this would continue throught the text. The problem with people writing scripts is a lot of them can't write stories.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 04, 2007, 04:47:29 pm ---AS: there's a reason sci-fi has been dubbed 'skiffy': it not only lacks substance (as well as any kind of physical consistency - that is, whatever physics may govern its universe, they make sense); it lacks a quality of story-telling that if you were to read the script, immediately you'd be very interested in it...and this would continue throught the text. The problem with people writing scripts is a lot of them can't write stories.

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Understood, you prefer your scifi in book form rather then video form.  I'm not saying this show will be the next great scifi show (it could end up being quite bad in the long run), I just think its pretty ignorant to say a show has no story because not a lot happens in the first 7 minutes.  In fact, I bet very few of the best movies and tv shows (only counting pilot episodes), in any genre, get very deep into the plot within the first 7 minutes.

As for the CG, I agree it's not that great.  Several scenes felt like I was watching comic book (as was mentioned, it often looked 2d), but I thought it still worked well enough.  I think the show probably will have a hard time making its money back, but it looks like they'll finish the first season regardless.  Apparently they've already finished the first 8 episodes and it cost $4.5 million (Canadian) to make them, which put the show into the Guiness book of world records for "Highest Budget for a Direct-to-Web Broadcast." 

patrickl:
Wow, that's a lot of money.

shorthair:
Oh, obviously they have good funding for the medium. But, no, AS you don't really have any idea what I'm talking about. It's not the medium that is the matter but those writing for it. The original Star Trek had at least at times some pretty decent writing. However, there was one episode that Harlan Ellison was contracted to write and which Roddenberry at least somewhat bastardised. Ellison is a class A writer - regardless of what format he's written for.

Of course, a visual representation of a story has to be approached somewhat differently than a printed one. They still should both be held to the same standards. Despite the magnitude of drivel being written and on the majority of shelves of B&N, etc, 'writing' is a tradition that still has a base of authors and fans that adhere to those standards. That video has hardly had these, and rarely does now is because the audience didn't read much, if they ever do now. Reading writing is thinking.

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