Remastered "Miri"!
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Curiously, they didn't change the "bad" double phaser shot when Kirk shoots Louise.
They added a curious surround-sound stereo effect to one scene of the kids chanting.
They added a curious surround-sound stereo effect to one scene of the kids chanting.
All we got here was "Miri" our station didn't show Bot.
the phaser sounded totally different to me, I was like "wth?" Over all, I loved the episode, and I think they did a great job with the Enterprise and planet shots. I also believe that they did redo McCoy's transition back to normal, cause it looked to fluid and smooth to be from back then. Back then it would have been frame by frame shot and looked jumpy and out of place.
Personally, I think Balance of Terror was the perfect episode to start with. The original series was pitched as exploring new worlds, so they couldn't start with a ship-based bottle episode, but this is trying to show off the CGI for space shots, so an episode like BOT would make sense. Same logic that aired man trap first, only in reverse.
It would be nice to try and go back to some of the early episodes next, though, which I don't think they are doing.
It would be nice to try and go back to some of the early episodes next, though, which I don't think they are doing.
Not quite. The original effect was done in your classic Lon Chaney Wolfman/Bill Bixby Hulk manner, a series of slow dissolves from one stage of the makeup to the next (i.e. fading one out while the next fades in). As long as they successfully kept the camera locked down and DeForest Kelley's head still, the transitions would've been smooth. I don't remember offhand whether there were any double images visible during the transitions, as was often the case in this kind of effect when the subject moved slightly between shots.
So, where I live, we only got BoT, twice. Once on sat and again on sun. Does this mean I will get Miri next sat or did I just skip Miri?
You may get it in one of the slots next week (depending if their intnent is to run two episodes a week. One "new" one and one "repeat" of last week. Otherwise Miri won't run again for a while.
It's the only early episode to show Earth (or at least a facsimile thereof). I guarantee you that was the reason for it.
I'm glad they're bothering to redo more than just the exterior effects. This bodes well for a decent transformation of the salt monster in The Man Trap. None of that 'the background is changing too' thanks! Perhaps they'll do a proper shape morph!
Everyone seems to be assuming that this is all about the new effects. It isn't. It's about remastering the episodes, making new copies off the original master print and audio tracks in order to achieve the highest quality and fidelity possible. The only reason the new digital effects were done was because a direct remastering of the old effects shots still didn't live up to HDTV standards, so they had to take another tack. Since most TOS episodes were light on opticals, the new footage rarely amounts to more than a minute or so per episode.
However, in terms of why they were chosen to air in this order, "Balance of Terror" was no doubt chosen because it was an FX-heavy episode, so they did want to showcase that at least once. As for why "Miri" was included as a preview, if the effects were a factor at all in that decision, I'd assume it was to show off the new Earth shots.
Start Wreck said:
I'm glad they're bothering to redo more than just the exterior effects. This bodes well for a decent transformation of the salt monster in The Man Trap. None of that 'the background is changing too' thanks! Perhaps they'll do a proper shape morph!
God, I hope not. That is not what this is about. They're trying to preserve the original intent, not trample it under a bunch of modern snazzy gimmicks. Whatever changes they make are intended to be subtle and unobtrusive.
Besides, the Salt Vampire wasn't actually a shapeshifter, it was an illusion-caster. It projected false images into people's minds (as proven when three men simultaneously saw it as three different women). So it'd be thoroughly misguided to do its transformations by morphing (an effect which rarely looks realistic anyway because it's 2-dimensional).
Quite true!
CRAP!
My local (Portland) TV schedule showed episodes on Sat and Sun, and I figured the Sunday one was a rebroadcast - whereas it was ANOTHER new episode?
CRAP!
Ah well, this week it'll be Naked Time (Sat) and Devil in the Dark (Sun).
Bet yer ass I'll watch both THIS time!
My local (Portland) TV schedule showed episodes on Sat and Sun, and I figured the Sunday one was a rebroadcast - whereas it was ANOTHER new episode?
CRAP!
Ah well, this week it'll be Naked Time (Sat) and Devil in the Dark (Sun).
Bet yer ass I'll watch both THIS time!
you're stating the obvious. we all know why they're doing this (not for the FX but as a whole). you've addressed my issue in your 2nd paragraph though. there is nothing about Miri that justifies it being the first episode (in many markets) to be shown in Remastered TOS. so I still don't get why Miri was selected. the earth was shown in plenty of other episodes where there were OTHER FX involved (that they could tackle). Time for Yesterday comes to mind etc...
okay I need coffee....
TOMORROW is Yesterday.
ps, that was a good novel though
Well, I think that the episode order is partly influenced by one of the same factors that determined the original TOS airdate order (which was also wildly different from production order, though not this wildly): namely, which episodes were ready when the airdate came. For whatever reason, "Miri" was ready before other episodes were.
Here's the official schedule of airings of remastered schedules direct from startrek.com
remastered schedule
remastered schedule
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