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Remember I said that I was watching Battlestar Glactica?
Color me impressed. In most if not all scifi "space" shows I've seen, people think like they're still on a planet. Ships always meet nose to nose, right side up. They always fly in flat horizontal lines, never up or down.
We first saw that this was different when people land on the "underside" of a ship, only to fall down into it when they actually break in. But this....
They had a dogfight in space, and they actually moved in space. Spinning, going up and down and diagonally and sideways, shooting from underneath, everything. It's so simple, but it makes a difference. Realism is my god. You have no idea, I watched this and my eyes literally went wide.
I think I'm going to need a new icon.
Color me impressed. In most if not all scifi "space" shows I've seen, people think like they're still on a planet. Ships always meet nose to nose, right side up. They always fly in flat horizontal lines, never up or down.
We first saw that this was different when people land on the "underside" of a ship, only to fall down into it when they actually break in. But this....
They had a dogfight in space, and they actually moved in space. Spinning, going up and down and diagonally and sideways, shooting from underneath, everything. It's so simple, but it makes a difference. Realism is my god. You have no idea, I watched this and my eyes literally went wide.
I think I'm going to need a new icon.
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Date: 2005-01-28 11:59 pm (UTC)Or rather I was typing to you. Whatever.
Sometimes I get irked by using speaking metaphors in typing-land. I'm funny that way.