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Re: Minifig Scales
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:10:01 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch wrote:
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In lugnet.space, Dave Schuler wrote:
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LOL, I thought the same thing when I saw that episode. There they are
walking through walls but yet they are standing perfectly fine on the
floors. It amuses me.
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Nuts to that! How the heck did they breathe? Presumably the out-of-phase
air would go right through them.
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You’re not being imaginative enough. Do such phenomena have to work in an
overly simplistic way?
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It’s not a question of lack of imagination. Quite the opposite, in fact. I’m
imagining the ramifications of the “reality” established by the plot (which is
what the writer of the story should presumably have done!)
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I prefer the explanation, “it’s sci-fi and we don’t have the time or
inclination to fully explain here how it works when it’s all highly
speculative anyway”. What a shame that some people don’t make the cerebral
effort to try and explain to themselves how it might work, and instead just
dismiss what is often good entertainment.
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Don’t get me wrong--I still like well-executed science fiction, and I can
readily overlook minor glitches. I even enjoy brainstorming about post hoc
explanations of how apparent goofs aren’t “really” goofs (ask me about the
Terminator’s internal text display sometime!). But I don’t like excusing the
writer/director for things that could easily have been addressed. Geordi could
have said “thank goodness that the field generated by the gravity plating still
gives us a surface to stand on” or somesuch technobabble. Just some indication
that the writers were conscious of what they were writing.
Dave!
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| (...) You're not being imaginative enough. Do such phenomena have to work in an overly simplistic way? (...) And forces the viewer to use their imagination... perish the thought! I prefer the explanation, "it's sci-fi and we don't have the time or (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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