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GABA ghoul posted:I think all the cards are broken except the one mother found last season and the one Markus found in the tunnel with the snake skin fella who turned into a dog after sniffing that tooth. Yeah, in both cases they were being guarded by the last remaining un-unevolved remnants of the previous civilisation. RIP dogman. You got Grandmothered.
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The fish folk have lost their human intelligence and higher consciousness. That's why no one would want to be one.
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The mermaid CGI was pretty bad This show veers so wildly between awesome sets and effects and just outright embarrassingly bad stuff
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I thought the merpeople looked awesome, what was wrong with the CGI
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It looked fake as gently caress when she was handing over the baby to the CGI merman
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Oh that part might be true... that kind of interaction is always gonna be tough on a budget
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I saw people bitching about the tank cg. The tank was awesome. fuckin tron rear end spectre VR rear end tank.
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The best thing about the tanks is when they started interacting with one up close in some scenes and you suddenly realized it wasn't just bad CGI, it was an actual tank actually textured exactly like bad CGI. It was kind of amazing.
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I forgive this show all of it's budgetary transgressions because it is otherwise perfect in ways I didn't know television could be Except for that loving day for night There shouldn't be night shadows
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I kind of bought it in this just because they're on some hosed up alien world, I don't know what kind of wonky rear end atmosphere or moons it has casting glows when and where.
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Eiba posted:The best thing about the tanks is when they started interacting with one up close in some scenes and you suddenly realized it wasn't just bad CGI, it was an actual tank actually textured exactly like bad CGI. It was kind of amazing.
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DamnGlitch posted:I saw people bitching about the tank cg. The tank was awesome. fuckin tron rear end spectre VR rear end tank. As someone who worked on Spectre VR, thanks for remembering!
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This show being cheap af to make is also one of about 2 good reasons it will get a 3rd season Second reason is because Ridley Scott really loves jerkin it to them milky rear end bots. The entire milky bot industry is built on that old dude's ability to huff andre the giant sized viagra pills
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Sally Sprodgkin posted:This show being cheap af to make is also one of about 2 good reasons it will get a 3rd season I have some really bad news for you. IIRC the show was advertised as the most expensive show to ever be filmed in South Africa. It's a huge rear end town sized production
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Khanstant posted:I kind of bought it in this just because they're on some hosed up alien world, I don't know what kind of wonky rear end atmosphere or moons it has casting glows when and where. Exactly, it has three moons! When the Earth's full moon is out it casts shadows, imagine how much brighter it would be with three of them. With a pristine unpolluted atmosphere it would seem bright as hell at night.
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GABA ghoul posted:I have some really bad news for you. IIRC the show was advertised as the most expensive show to ever be filmed in South Africa. It's a huge rear end town sized production Faint, as it were, praise indeed.
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I don't get why every show these days just doesn't use the massive wrap around background screen running unreal engine tech that Mandalorian/Boba Fett used? Everything is in on one sound stage, no need to go to Ireland or Africa or Australia to shoot outdoor scenes. Surely that would be the cheapest option.
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lynch_69 posted:I don't get why every show these days just doesn't use the massive wrap around background screen running unreal engine tech that Mandalorian/Boba Fett used? Everything is in on one sound stage, no need to go to Ireland or Africa or Australia to shoot outdoor scenes. Surely that would be the cheapest option. There's only 2 of those in existence iirc. One for Mandalorian/Boba Fett and one in that was recently built in Toronto that Discovery/Strange New Worlds uses. As for it costing less, maybe over the long run. But for 1 show it probably would end up costing a lot more. Some of the scenes for Mando/Boba looked pretty bad too and you could tell.
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eschaton posted:As someone who worked on Spectre VR, thanks for remembering! What the gently caress? That is awesome. That's like my childhood.
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Everytime I see new posts in this thread I keeping thinking there must be season 3 news... 
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GABA ghoul posted:I have some really bad news for you. IIRC the show was advertised as the most expensive show to ever be filmed in South Africa. It's a huge rear end town sized production This does not, in fact, mean it was not (by Hollywood atandards) cheap to make.
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DamnGlitch posted:What the gently caress? That is awesome. That's like my childhood. It was the first software I ever got to work on professionally, I’m credited as a playtester but I also made an (abortive) attempt to port it to PowerMac. Unfortunately it was an unholy combination of MPW 68K assembly, Pascal, C++, and C, and Apple didn’t actually provide a Pascal compiler for PowerPC and the Language Systems Pascal compiler had a variety of issues with the existing code. And I was trying to both do that and college… Anyway, yeah, love those Spectre-rear end tanks. 
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McSpanky posted:Exactly, it has three moons! When the Earth's full moon is out it casts shadows, imagine how much brighter it would be with three of them. With a pristine unpolluted atmosphere it would seem bright as hell at night. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment, but it is noticeably cheap (looking)! Fire looked better in the first season, even when it was obviously CG!
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:There's only 2 of those in existence iirc. One for Mandalorian/Boba Fett and one in that was recently built in Toronto that Discovery/Strange New Worlds uses. Apparently there's another one in Georgia too. Also, ILM are expanding The Volume to 2 locations in California, one in London and one in Australia.
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Just binged both seasons, and I wonder a bit about the timeline and evolution of Kepler 22b vs Earth. They both somehow managed to have Neanderthals and humans in the past? Is it supposed to just be an extreme variant of parallel evolution, down to the same religion? Or did the Neanderthals have a space program and hosed off to 22b when humans started taking over?
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ymgve posted:Just binged both seasons, and I wonder a bit about the timeline and evolution of Kepler 22b vs Earth. They both somehow managed to have Neanderthals and humans in the past? Is it supposed to just be an extreme variant of parallel evolution, down to the same religion? No, it is panspermia. Kepler 22b seeded Earth and presumably other worlds.
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Vitruvian Manic posted:No, it is panspermia. Kepler 22b seeded Earth and presumably other worlds. But then it's still some parallell evolution, unless there was a constant exchange of species up until some thousand years ago. If 22b seeded Earth it had to be billions of years in the past. (I guess all of this could be handwaved away with doing a Battlestar Galactica and saying "It's not actually our Earth", but that's kinda cheating)
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ymgve posted:But then it's still some parallell evolution, unless there was a constant exchange of species up until some thousand years ago. If 22b seeded Earth it had to be billions of years in the past. Not necessarily. Panspermia separates man from nature in a way the real world doesn't. But that's OK because it is a TV show. It could be that there is teleological evolution. The show talking about "devolving" would support that take and it is probably the most likely. That's different from parallel evolution though.
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ymgve posted:Just binged both seasons, and I wonder a bit about the timeline and evolution of Kepler 22b vs Earth. They both somehow managed to have Neanderthals and humans in the past? Is it supposed to just be an extreme variant of parallel evolution, down to the same religion? Or did the Neanderthals have a space program and hosed off to 22b when humans started taking over? Ancient aliens seems to be the most fitting explanation. They abducted neanderthals/human ancestors from Earth hundred of thousands of years ago. But there are a lot of holes in that theory. Like, Father guessed the age of Grandma to be in the millions IIRC and she looks like a modern day human. I guess modern humans on Earth could be descendents of Kepler refugees and earth hominids intermixing? Our modern appearance would then have originated on Kepler(through genetic manipulation of the abducted Neanderthals?) and then introduced here after Kepler went boom. ymgve posted:(I guess all of this could be handwaved away with doing a Battlestar Galactica and saying "It's not actually our Earth", but that's kinda cheating) They did show earth to have the correct continents and referred to cities like Boston. It would be a strange choice if they were going for a fantasy earth setting. Vitruvian Manic posted:Not necessarily. Panspermia separates man from nature in a way the real world doesn't. But that's OK because it is a TV show. I have never heard of panspermia referring exclusively to human origins, only to life in general. Do you have an example of this?
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DropsySufferer posted:Everytime I see new posts in this thread I keeping thinking there must be season 3 news... While waiting for Season 3 to drop, M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth is the raised-by-wolvesiest movie ever made.
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lynch_69 posted:I don't get why every show these days just doesn't use the massive wrap around background screen running unreal engine tech that Mandalorian/Boba Fett used? Everything is in on one sound stage, no need to go to Ireland or Africa or Australia to shoot outdoor scenes. Surely that would be the cheapest option. Because you need to build a wraparound stage with billions of 1800 nit, 95+ CRI LEDs, get a team to model a whole environment in unreal and train your crew to work with all this stuff. That is not cheaper than a trip to Australia with massive tax incentives. In a number of years you will probably be able to just hire a stage that's already set up for it, but that's not happening soon.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Because you need to build a wraparound stage with billions of 1800 nit, 95+ CRI LEDs, get a team to model a whole environment in unreal and train your crew to work with all this stuff. That is not cheaper than a trip to Australia with massive tax incentives. also the actors and directors like to travel to fun places and mostly think acting in front of a big tv sucks
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DeimosRising posted:also the actors and directors like to travel to fun places and mostly think acting in front of a big tv sucks george lucas says gently caress them
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Khanstant posted:what's this about neanderthals? don't recall them showin up in the show? they found a neanderthal skull in the tall creature's pouch at the end of the first season.
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No Pants posted:they found a neanderthal skull in the tall creature's pouch at the end of the first season. What happened to the parkour creature again?
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Trying to make sense of this show is big mistake. In Ridleys Scotts mind it was probably: Neanderthals lived long time ago + Kepler was long time ago = Neanderthals lived on Kepler.
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