It seems there is a reason for the visual reboot and the producers aren't being honest about it.
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Only since TWOK, though it's retroactively true for TOS as well.
Point is, I think, they didn't glow when fired.
Yeah, I remember being perplexed by that when I first saw TWOK. "Wait, photon torpedoes have an actual physical casing? How does that work? I always thought they were just energy bolts."
And Proton Torpedoes
Have we seen those canonically in their undischarged state?
Hard to eulogise over an energy blob I guess.
I don’t know, but you can see the physical warhead in ANH if you freeze frame the shot of them in front of the Exhaust Port
That's IMO the bigger problem I have with that scene - we already saw bombs being dropped in Star Wars. They looked like energy balls. Why did they change that?
Yep there's a difference in the two presentations.. the Original knew the audience would see the glowing bombs as alien technology that could have space propulsive properties simply by being a glowing light. It implies it. The New Star Wars approach is the audience is stupid.. so make the bombs look real. Oh, and our scripts suck, so focus on practical effects, practical effects, in all the Blu-ray commentary, they focus on that heavily, and oh, yea from the reviews I see, in TLJ Blu-ray commentaries they opine and whine about the fans who didn't like TLJ..
talk about offensive, stupid, and audience shaming.. what a laugh.. This is how modern film making is received, with open arms, as they dumb down science fiction, and make it popcorn throw away material. Lucas didn't treat the audience as idiots.. Like no one would notice TFA was a scene for scene rip off of the original Movie by Hack Abrams..
Kinda like CBS expects us to accept STD as original universe canon..
Ummmm, yea.. No.. alternate universe, just admit it.
&*%! New Star Wars!
Now back to the topic at hand..
"Visual reboot."
Honestly, I don't care, it's the stupidest complaint about a universe that is ruled by a literal evil wizard.
I got no problem with it........when you own it, you make the calls. Plus.........It ain't real.
"I must've made that jump 50 times. Scared the Hell out of me each time. Except this time... Because it isn't real. Nothing here is. Nothing here matters."
This is true.. and It also means we as the audience don't have to accept anything the owner wants to do with it. Up to the fans what we consider canon or not. I don't think it matters what they say about their property either. Works both ways. i just consider STD a Star Trek universe within the multiverse of realities.. that's all, but not the original 1960s canon and up to the end of the TV era of DS9, TNG, ENT, and VOY. Personal preference is always paramount over anything else.
They don't have to admit anything. Just like you don't have to accept anything.
I certainly don't accept TMP in the same universe in TOS, and certainly not TNG. But, that's me.
And CBS couldn't care less.
I have my own head canon from nearly twenty-five years of short stories and fan film scripts and even I have trouble keeping it all straight.
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