RE: Thoughts on new Star Wars (No Spoilers, I Promise)
December 21, 2015 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2015 at 10:08 am by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(December 21, 2015 at 7:10 am)RaphielDrake Wrote:(December 20, 2015 at 10:46 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: There's killer comets and rogue asteroids, but their charisma didn't do much to help movies like Armageddon.
Even these dudes have faces..sort of:
What about an alien race of mysterious beings with power far in advance of the jedis or the siths?
Or a rogue AI.
On attacks by alien species (race...huh?), you need to first conjure up an alien culture with motivation to attack humans, which is hard to do without anthropomorphism to the point of distraction. This was enough of a problem already with the many sideshow alien species in these movies.
On malicious, rogue AI attackers, I really loved Battlestar Galactica, especially the reboot series. Interestingly, the reboot series did a lot more to anthropomorphize the cybernetic enemy of humanity. They went a lot further with that enemy this time around by depicting it as a group of minds with human faces, in scenes depicting the sort of malice, indifference, and even a religiously-driven ideology, all of which was coldly human as the humans which they despised. This would have been hopelessly too complex for the 1977 audience to digest, and that's when Star Wars started.
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