Yeah, I'll be checking it out later this week. Currently burning off an episode of Mission: Impossible.
You know what they didn't get in 1969? As retold by my extensive survey of Mission: Impossible and Stark Trek? Data on screens. They print on paper, they punch out on cards, they flash lights. But they don't have dynamically generated words on screens.
Kinda weird to look back on high tech shows lacking that, giving the ubiquity of readouts these days.
My left arm is randomly jacked up. Scratches, blisters, bruises, burns. Not sure what's up with that. I think it's off having a life from which the rest of me isn't benefitting.
hmm. It might be partying with my upper-left thigh.
ita, I'm sure it has a lot to do with the relative small budgets for TV SFX at the time, and the lack of computing power to do it with, but then there's also the lack of imagination/experience to prevent them from thinking outside the box they knew. I know the first couple 'computers' I saw -- early 70s -- had telephonic modems (the handset actually placed in a cradle) and no screens -- the printer output was your feedback.
On the other hand, I'm OOOOOLD. Although, at least I was under 10 when TOS started up.
Did you all check out the Google logo this morning?
Hee, Tom! The biggest thing I miss in iGoogle is getting to see the special logos that come and go.
then there's also the lack of imagination/experience to prevent them from thinking outside the box they knew
That's what fascinates me. I mean, Star Trek was perfectly willing to try and reach beyond its budget in a number of areas, but I'm pretty sure dumping words on a screen wouldn't have been that expensive (was it being done on contemporaneous news shows?) to do badly.
I wonder when someone looked at the TV screen sideways and had a lightbulb go off.
And right now I just want us to get further away from the TV. I want my ePaper, dammit.
Beach shoes.
Okay, nap time.
Am I alone in thinking it really boring and weird with total charisma vacuums instead of actors?
No you're not. I've been finding all the Jane Austen adaptations so far very heavy and slow. Jane Austen for me, has always matched the romance with a lot of wit, and I really feel it's been missing here.
Also, I had just watched a couple of episodes of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, so I had a total mindbend to see Billie Piper go from high class whore to Fanny Price.
I'm pretty sure dumping words on a screen wouldn't have been that expensive (was it being done on contemporaneous news shows?)
According to Wikipedia, chyron's been around since 1966.
Dead of the cute. He's such a talker, Jess!
Is it Legos birthday or something? I always miss the logos unless someone points them out because of iGoogle, too.
