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What Changes For "The Gamesters of Triskelion"?

^ Yep. "Gamesters" is this weekend's episode (not the rerun)... unless you are talking about your local viewing schedule and then I can't help you. :( I think lots of people are having trouble watching this season.

And the rest of the schedule:

10.27.07 Catspaw (R) 030
11.03.07 Metamorphosis 031
11.10.07 The Deadly Years 040
11.17.07 The Doomsday Machine (R) 035
11.24.07 Space Seed (R) 024
12.01.07 The Alternative Factor 020
12.08.07 The Return of the Archons 022
12.15.07 A Taste of Armageddon 023
12.22.07 Tomorrow is Yesterday (R) 021
12.29.07 The Immunity Syndrome (R) 048
01.05.08 Day of the Dove 066
01.12.08 Who Mourns for Adonais? 033
01.19.08 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 070
01.26.08 The Enemy Within 005
02.02.08 The Changeling 037
02.09.08 The Ultimate Computer 053
02.16.08 The Trouble With Tribbles (R) 042
02.23.08 Operation: Annihilate! 029
03.01.08 The Apple 038
03.08.08 By Any Other Name 050
03.15.08 That Which Survives 069
03.22.08 Is There In Truth No Beauty? 062
03.29.08 Elaan of Troyius 057
04.05.08 The Enterprise Incident 059
04.12.08 Obsession 047
04.19.08 Mudd's Women 004
04.26.08 The Cage 001
05.03.08 Assignment: Earth 055
05.10.08 Court Martial 015
05.17.08 A Private Little War 045
05.24.08 Whom Gods Destroy 071
05.31.08 The Mark of Gideon 072
06.07.08 The Lights of Zetar 073
06.14.08 The Way to Eden 075
06.21.08 Requiem for Methusaleh 076
06.28.08 The Savage Curtain 077
07.05.08 The Omega Glory (R) 054
07.12.08 The Cloud Minders 074
07.19.08 Spectre of the Gun 056
07.26.08 The Empath 063
08.02.08 Turnabout Intruder 079
 
Thanks!
Actually, I just watched it about an hour or so ago. Nice changes...not many, but the few that were made are interesting and very snazzy.
 
I'd suggest make Tamoon look even more mannish but that's impossible. On second thought are we REALLY sure what gender he/she/it is?

Robert
 
I don't think changes would help. It is what it is, a bad story well told (the direction is kinetic, the casting is terrific, the design is pleasingly bizarre, and Gerald Fried's "Amok Time" music is used appropriately), and not heavily dependent on FX.
 
^^I don't think so. Though I wonder if it was previously totally static or not. There seemed to be a light blinking off and on in the background.

Though I have to say, this is one of my least favorite episodes, I love the work they did on this one.
 
Basill said:
^^I don't think so. Though I wonder if it was previously totally static or not. There seemed to be a light blinking off and on in the background.
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Yeah, I noticed that. Being a disembodied brain makes it hard to change a light bulb.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
Did they change the reused matte painting in the brain cave? I couldn't tell.
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No, they didn't. Which baffled me since it was just a lazy rehash of the Janus VI pergium mining facility backdrop from "Devil in the Dark," and even in the Remastered version of that episode the backdrop was changed and made to look more 3-D and sophisticated.
 
cooleddie74 said:
MeanJoePhaser said:
Did they change the reused matte painting in the brain cave? I couldn't tell.
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No, they didn't. Which baffled me since it was just a lazy rehash of the Janus VI pergium mining facility backdrop from "Devil in the Dark," and even in the Remastered version of that episode the backdrop was changed and made to look more 3-D and sophisticated.
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Yeah, what was up with that? I was very disappointed and expecting a redo of that at least.

:rommie:
 
Maybe Okuda and his team didn't have enough time or money to remaster everything they wanted to...odd, though, considering how relatively little got changed in "Triskelion" overall. You'd think they would have had all the time they needed to tweak a backdrop outside a window. Go figure.
 
They're busy spending all their time, money and effort on improving Mallory's scenes in The Apple. C'mon, you don't think it was scheduled towards the end because it was going to be easy did you?

BTW, wait until you see the new cinematic death scene! :thumbsup:
 
^Yeah, they're making a brand new scene showing Mallory on his way to the transporter room to report for landing party duty.

As he walks over a broken mirror under a ladder with a black cat crossing his path, he'll be talking about how he's figured out a simple formula that is guaranteed to cure ALL diseases and a sure-fire way for permanent peace and friendship with the Klingons and Romulans. He's even figured out for sure who assassinated John F, Kennedy. Mallory says he'll reveal all this and more when he gets back and marries his fiance.

What a shame.

Robert
 
Mallory said:
They're busy spending all their time, money and effort on improving Mallory's scenes in The Apple. C'mon, you don't think it was scheduled towards the end because it was going to be easy did you?

BTW, wait until you see the new cinematic death scene! :thumbsup:
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Lemme guess.

Now, Mallory gets eaten alive by a bear? Gets a 16-ton weight dropped on his head? Gets in an orgy with some of Vaal's female villagers and dies of heart failure?
 
I refuse to speculate further. At some point, as we get closer to the actual air date, I'll probably start a thread on this topic. But for now, I'm just leading this one off-topic and that's a bad thing.
 
Baby, it's got so much irony your freaking BONES will crumble and fall apart from overexposure.
 
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