Spoilers STAR TREK BEYOND

[Quinton O'Connor]

Came in here to post the same thing. King Daniel Into Victory. Dammit. Always a step behind that one.

It's interesting that they note the artificial trees. Special effects work for the forest filming locations, perhaps? I agree with their hypothesis that that's the case. Lots of forest in this movie, it seems! Depending on how much they spruce it up with processing work, we could be looking at STARGATE BEYOND.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

It's quite obvious that they're on Caprica....

 

[eyeresist]

I find it amusing that the Klingon writing system is named pIqaD. When Jean-Luc of the Enterprise introduces himself to Klingons, they must think he's calling himself "Captain Alphabet."

Indeed! The way he pronounces it a lot of the time ("p'cawed")

He never says it that way! He is not from Boston...

 

[ralph]

source: TrekCore

It reminds me a spaceship. A romulan bird of prey or a new Klingon bird of prey

 

[Christopher]

^See above posts. The later photos show that they built it up into a simulated crater or depression in a forest setting.

 

[ralph]

^See above posts. The later photos show that they built it up into a simulated crater or depression in a forest setting.

Ok. Trek Core refers a "rolling hills", but it could be a crashed ship

 

[BillJ]

^See above posts. The later photos show that they built it up into a simulated crater or depression in a forest setting.

Ok. Trek Core refers a "rolling hills", but it could be a crashed ship

I'm thinking you're right. Awfully symmetrical for rolling hills.

 

[Christopher]

^The only thing I see there that's remotely shiplike is that roughly symmetrical layout of wooden beams in the lower center. But they don't look like they're attached to anything -- more like they've just been laid out flat on the ground as a first step toward assembling something from them. Maybe they were subsequently raised into the support framework for one of the fake "hills."

 

[mos6507]

A movie can be reasonably successful yet still draw criticism for certain elements. And in that case, it's only reasonable for the makers of the next movie to go "Okay, those aspects didn't go over well, so let's try not to repeat them next time."

But I don't remember a whole lot of criticism about Alice Eve outside of the underwear scene.

The business about the underwear scene was really about her character contributing nothing much in general except for that scene. Otherwise it would never have loomed so... large, as it were.

(We've talked about this somewhere before... ah, yes.)

There's also the issue of Alice Eve's strong UK accent, vs. Bibi Besch's neutral middle-America accent. There are tons of brits in major movies these days but they've become really good at adopting American accents. She wasn't asked to change her accent. Apparently, JJ didn't care much more about continuity with this character than they did with Khan.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

But I don't remember a whole lot of criticism about Alice Eve outside of the underwear scene.

The business about the underwear scene was really about her character contributing nothing much in general except for that scene. Otherwise it would never have loomed so... large, as it were.

(We've talked about this somewhere before... ah, yes.)

There's also the issue of Alice Eve's strong UK accent, vs. Bibi Besch's neutral middle-America accent. There are tons of brits in major movies these days but they've become really good at adopting American accents. She wasn't asked to change her accent. Apparently, JJ didn't care much more about continuity with this character than they did with Khan.

Accent happens to be a character element for which extremely plausible in-universe explanations are available to account for the difference. Given that Admiral Marcus had a substantially different history in the Prime Universe, Carol could have easily grown up exposed to different accents than she was in the Prime Universe. You'd get way more mileage bringing up eye color. In other words, the issue of a change in accent is substantially less than immaterial.

 

[martok2112]

The business about the underwear scene was really about her character contributing nothing much in general except for that scene. Otherwise it would never have loomed so... large, as it were.

(We've talked about this somewhere before... ah, yes.)

There's also the issue of Alice Eve's strong UK accent, vs. Bibi Besch's neutral middle-America accent. There are tons of brits in major movies these days but they've become really good at adopting American accents. She wasn't asked to change her accent. Apparently, JJ didn't care much more about continuity with this character than they did with Khan.

Accent happens to be a character element for which extremely plausible in-universe explanations are available to account for the difference. Given that Admiral Marcus had a substantially different history in the Prime Universe, Carol could have easily grown up exposed to different accents than she was in the Prime Universe. You'd get way more mileage bringing up eye color. In other words, the issue of a change in accent is substantially less than immaterial.

Not to mention, I think Carol's accent in STID is damn sexy!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

British accents are very sexy!

 

[Christopher]

Accent happens to be a character element for which extremely plausible in-universe explanations are available to account for the difference. Given that Admiral Marcus had a substantially different history in the Prime Universe, Carol could have easily grown up exposed to different accents than she was in the Prime Universe. You'd get way more mileage bringing up eye color. In other words, the issue of a change in accent is substantially less than immaterial.

Indeed. The explanation is implicit in the fact that Admiral Marcus operates out of London. If he's lived and worked there long enough, it makes perfect sense that his daughter would have an English accent. There was even a line explaining that in the script, but they cut it out when they realized, correctly, that it didn't need justification.

 

[Franklin]

Accent happens to be a character element for which extremely plausible in-universe explanations are available to account for the difference. Given that Admiral Marcus had a substantially different history in the Prime Universe, Carol could have easily grown up exposed to different accents than she was in the Prime Universe. You'd get way more mileage bringing up eye color. In other words, the issue of a change in accent is substantially less than immaterial.

Indeed. The explanation is implicit in the fact that Admiral Marcus operates out of London. If he's lived and worked there long enough, it makes perfect sense that his daughter would have an English accent. There was even a line explaining that in the script, but they cut it out when they realized, correctly, that it didn't need justification.

Heck, I even know a real life example in reverse. Some friends moved here from the U.K. several years ago. The parents have kept their accents, but their children, who were in grade school when they moved here, now sound "so American" that no one even believes them when they say they are British citizens.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I remember exchange students I knew coming back from Britain with pretty thick English accents after one year.

 

[Phantom]

I don't need to do ANY math to know that the force of my exhaled breath in the Midwest is not going to stir so much as a molecule of air on the East Coast. It's not going to even stir a molecule of air on the other end of my apartment.

Lulz. If you can hear the exhale at the other end of your apartment, even if with a super-sensitive microphone, then "the force of [your] exhaled breath" [sic] stirred many, many molecules there. You shoulda done some math.

Ok, so there is a minor effect. It's not gonna make a Nor'easter happen in NY no matter what.

The point was that some inputs are just too small to affect very large systems, and time arguably is no different than the regular 3d world in that aspect.

 

[BigJake]

Isn't Alice Eve Australian? Anyway I certainly don't have any complaints about her accent.

Depending on how much they spruce it up with processing work . . .

I see what you did there.

 

[Campe]

Isn't Alice Eve Australian? Anyway I certainly don't have any complaints about her accent.

Nope. She was born in London.

 

[Phantom]

What if we get rock people?

"Oh darn."

Ok, THAT's funny!

(Who says I don't have a sense of humor?)

Side note about Canada filming and it's over-use of certain settings:

Many of those settings (esp the ones used for Stargate) are no longer useable due to development. The "sand dunes" area in particular fell victim to that.

 

[Christopher]

Heck, I even know a real life example in reverse. Some friends moved here from the U.K. several years ago. The parents have kept their accents, but their children, who were in grade school when they moved here, now sound "so American" that no one even believes them when they say they are British citizens.

In high school, I was acquainted with a girl who came from somewhere in New England but who had a lovely, posh English accent because she'd been raised by an English nanny.