>> ^Hyperdrive:

Let Condorman show you how it's done.


That was the best/worst movie ever -

>> ^Hyperdrive:

I can't help but feel this is not John Cleese's best work.


F'n Genius I tells ya!

>> ^Hyperdrive:
That's no lawn. That's a space station.

That is the funniest comment yet! Cracked me up! Thank you for the laugh! :-D

I'm enjoying this video. That music makes for such a drama as the realization of the full illusion effect draws to a close!

>> ^Ornthoron:

I felt a lot of the same as @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Morganth" title="member since March 25th, 2008" class="profilelink">Morganth watching this video. The story is supposedly set 3500 years before the events of the original movies, yet everything looks almost exactly the same. I will admit that I know very little Star Wars lore, but were the culture of the Old Republic really that similar? Among the things that looked almost exactly alike in this video were
-Stormtroopers
-Star Destroyers
-Tie Fighters
-smuggler ships
-door control panels
When I think of the Old Republic I want something old-fashioned and exotic, not the same stuff that I've seen hundreds of times before.


Yep, basically all content is ancesteral to Ep 4/5/6. Same schtick Lucas did with Ep 1, 2 and 3.

The thing that bothers me is that they keep trotting the exact same scenarios out.

-cocky smuggler a carbon copy of Han, check
-standard "enemy can't hit for shit" when a main character is striding in to combat with them
-freighter is 'fastest in sector' and 'looks like junk'
-ppl in the gun turrets ala New Hope
-Asteroid chase ala Empire
-Flying up the belly of a SD ala Jedi
-Flying through superstructure ala New Hope/Jedi

as if it's something new and fresh... The characters in this are infinitely more likeable than Ep 1/2/3 (although the smuggler character just annoys me) but the whole thing is so damn derivative it's like they're going down a checklist of homages they have to hit... I didn't hear a Wilhelm but I'm guesssing there's probably one of those in there somewhere as well.

I'm honestly surprised the hyperdrive didn't conk out and the smuggler started up "It's not my fault!"

>> ^Hyperdrive:

I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!


I didn't get the reference till I clicked thru. Hey Dizzy, "Yum Yum."

@Abel_Prisc

Yeah, it's not that I have a problem with unrealistic things...it's the degree to which they seem to pass things off as possible or realistic. Obviously it's a subjective judgement on my part, but, for example, look at Star Wars. I think it's very obvious that it's more science fantasy than science fiction. They don't care to tell you how hyperdrives work, or where lightsabers come from, etc. With Fringe, I just feel like they're trying too hard to explain the technology and make it seem real when it's clearly not.

I wish I had a good example off the top of my head to illustrate what I mean, but it's been a while since the show's last season ended. Basically, I'm willing to accept the alternate universe thing, but I don't need details beyond that...I don't need some BS explanation about how the portals work, etc...I think it takes away from the best parts of the show when they fill things in with that stuff.

Take the X-Files...a similar show. Their "explanations" of the crazy shit was always MUCH closer to reality...much more bordering on the possible or the slightly exaggerated. Sure, it wasn't amazing all the time, but I dunno, most of the episodes seemed more plausible. For this reason, I usually prefer to read hard sci-fi, but if I read something that's more fantasy, I want the author to know what he/she's about, not try to pass fantastic stuff off as plausible. Embrace the impossibility of the story, y'know? ...it's fine...people will accept it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#Subgenres

I know my explanation of my gripe is a little lengthy, hopefully you have some sort of attention span.

I definitely agree about the Emmys, and by no means should anyone take my comments as a reason to avoid the show...I love it despite its flaws.

^ He's on the Falcon, repairing the Hyperdrive with duct tape.

"why would corporate research ever develop a cure when they can indefinitely milk new treatments."

Finding a cure, a silver bullet, is difficult (severe understatement). Finding a treatment is still beneficial to sufferers.


^Hyperdrive:

Wish I could disagree with you.

I've got to agree with JWray and Hyperdrive. Ziegler's clearly intentionally doing this to get video of security forcibly removing him. He got what he wanted, and not nearly as much as he deserves.

"Press" does not give you a free pass into anything and everything. You're still subject to trespassing laws.

Hyperdrive = 13103

Cheers

"The superluminal speed of a hyperdrive was rated on a decreasing scale; the faster the hyperdrive, the lower the rating. These ratings were generally referred to as "Classes" and provided a quick, although often inconsistent or inaccurate, idea of a ship's hyperdrive speed. In 30 BBY, Class 3 drives were experimental, and by the end of the Clone Wars most military starships were using Class 3 or Class 2. During the Galactic Civil War, military capital ships and starfighters were generally equipped with Class 1 or Class 2, industrial freighters and haulers with Class 3 or Class 4, and civilian starships with Class 5 or above."

The X-wing had a class of 1, which is pretty good. The hyperspace drive is fed from the normal horizontal thruster, though some ships used anti-matter units if the power wasn't up to snuff. The power was channeled and converted, then hyperspace was accomplished. The size of the engine and ship, and distance plotted would all play a factor of the spool up time required. Also, all ships had a built in mechanism to disable hyperspace when to close to a gravity well, as hyperspace through massive objects was deadly. Some would use this to disable ships drives and prey on them.

I never gave it much thought, but where are the hyperdrives on the X-wings (when the fleet jumps @ 0:53)? They've always been depicted as these giant engines on all the bigger ships, so there shouldn't be enough space on the tiny space fighters. And even if they had puny hyperdrives, they should allow for slower/less distant travel. I know we have many Star Wars nerds, please someone enlighten me.

>> ^Retroboy:
>> ^Hyperdrive:
I'm happy enough to live without any drawers.

er... just don't go out in public without 'em, k?
It's quite invigorating, once you get used to the funny looks.

>> ^Hyperdrive:
I'm happy enough to live without any drawers.

er... just don't go out in public without 'em, k?