I would wait, except I will have to wait for a repeat to judge the effect.
What Changes Would You Like To See For "The Man Trap"?
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No it's not - it's the HD remaster of TOS Season One; and if you read the description, it says it contains remastered episodes that may not have aired on broadcast TV yet.
The salt creature should morph into its false images. Get rid of all those choppy fade effects. The backgrounds don't even match in some of them.
Wht should it morph? It's not a shape shifter, it projects a hypnotic screen. It's always the monster.
Exactly. How can it morph into different shapes at the same time for the various members of the landing party?
This is the second error in judgement I've seen by CBS Digital. The first was the overly rocking Enterprise while in the Earth's atmosphere at the beginning of Tomorrow Is Yesterday.
Actually, given their deadlines and that this episode had to squeeze into production to get ready for the HD DVD release, these aren't bad averages. Any 10 minutes of The Alternative Factor has worse special effects than these two mistakes combined.
This is the second error in judgement I've seen by CBS Digital. The first was the overly rocking Enterprise while in the Earth's atmosphere at the beginning of Tomorrow Is Yesterday.
Actually, given their deadlines and that this episode had to squeeze into production to get ready for the HD DVD release, these aren't bad averages. Any 10 minutes of The Alternative Factor has worse special effects than these two mistakes combined.
I'm not sure how else it could be shown and make sense from the audience POV. The monster looks different to other people at the same time...i.e. at the beginning, three crewmen saw the monster at the same time and they all saw something different. So when the monster wants to "hit-no-tyze" someone, the audience HAS to see that it's somehow changing its appearence. Doesn't it? Fade, morph or smash cut, it's got to change somehow.
Even if it doesn't CGI-morph, at least fix the backgrounds behind the creature/Nancy/et. al. so the red alert lights and wall grating matches what was seen a moment earlier. In the original 1966 effects, the transitions are so jerky and annoying they take away from the believability that an alien creature is projecting a false image.
JUST finished watching the new Remastered "Trap" about two hours ago on my local FOX affiliate.
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There's a very nice, all-new CGI shot of the entire archaeological ruins site that pans from right to left just as the episode comes back from the first set of commercials and the title flashes on the screen. This is 100 times superior to the old close-up shot of some of the ruin props on the soundstage that played as Kirk's first log entry is heard.
There are no CGI morphs when the salt creature projects its false images, but it appears a little of the jerkiness and grain in the film have been cleaned up a little.
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There's a very nice, all-new CGI shot of the entire archaeological ruins site that pans from right to left just as the episode comes back from the first set of commercials and the title flashes on the screen. This is 100 times superior to the old close-up shot of some of the ruin props on the soundstage that played as Kirk's first log entry is heard.
There are no CGI morphs when the salt creature projects its false images, but it appears a little of the jerkiness and grain in the film have been cleaned up a little.
Well, that sorta sucks. I kinda liked the morphs in the preview. But as stated earlier, the morphs wouldn't fit the continuity. I know this is a little late but what they could've done to enhance the transition from one person to another is to have the person become enveloped in a kindof sparkly cloud, much like the transporter effect, and when the cloud disappeares, the other person has taken the place of the first person.
What about the shot with Creature McCoy reverting to Creature Nancy? Does the scenery still shift in the transition?
What about the shot with Creature McCoy reverting to Creature Nancy? Does the scenery still shift in the transition?
No changes are needed at all, thanks. This was the very first episode aired, and I appreciate and respect and value it as a product of its time. I need no latter-day "improvements."
Works of art are endlessly malleable -- but only to the point where the creators declare they are done, or -- in this case -- when the episode initially airs.
For better or worse, TOS is bound by the '60s: you can't really get it unless you know NASA Apollo, the Soviet Union and the race riots. I refuse to see TOS endlessly remade for the iPod,iPhone, MySpace and Blackberry generation.
It's a 40 year old show. Deal with it.
Works of art are endlessly malleable -- but only to the point where the creators declare they are done, or -- in this case -- when the episode initially airs.
For better or worse, TOS is bound by the '60s: you can't really get it unless you know NASA Apollo, the Soviet Union and the race riots. I refuse to see TOS endlessly remade for the iPod,iPhone, MySpace and Blackberry generation.
It's a 40 year old show. Deal with it.
Yeah, you can still make out the transition line along the back wall of McCoy's quarters as the shot with Jeanne Bal is replaced with the one of De Kelley...but it's not as obvious as it once was. I guess it was digitally tweaked a little to make it seem more like one continuous, organic camera sweep.
Or a Klondike bar.
Now THAT'S a guy/girl/"it" who'll do anything for one.
Now THAT'S a guy/girl/"it" who'll do anything for one.
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