Huh, it has been a while hasn't it? Ah, well you know I have been quite busy with all of the cyborg octopi and cyborg mantis men... or women. Researching the specifics of praying mantis genders is actually on one hand very interesting and just as equaling terrifyingly strange. Seriously, praying mantises are some messed up bunch of bugs.
As I am writing episode 4 of the Tales of a Fable Star series, I am forced to look back at some of the story lines and species in the earlier episodes. And I have to say I keep thinking "Oh, I should have made that guy a cyborg." But alas that sort of thing just wouldn't fit the universe... that I made up in my head. Hm.
Speaking of research, as (spoilers) a part of the fourth episode will be featuring a Space Caliphate I have been doing a lot of research on the subject and found some pretty interesting things. Well, I suppose they are interesting to me, not sure how many other people will find minor cultural differences and various customs all that interesting. But darn it I just found it so fascinating that you don't see Muslims giving each other noogies is because they believe that their spirit is located at the top of their head and you are DEFINITELY not supposed to touch it. See? Told you no one but me would find it fascinating.
Ah, oh so Doctor Who has returned and is getting.... kind of interesting? I don't know. I mean, without saying too much, I am not entirely sure about this new season. I liked the start, the new Doctor was interesting and mean and dark and just very new and not really like any of the others. But the third episode was just... I don't want to say fraking terrible, but... It was pretty close to the worst episode I had ever seen. And that is saying a lot, I mean in relaunched Doctor Who series they have had some pretty out there and strange and even stupid things happened, that I have actually liked or at least think was better than this. And it isn't so much a result of a low budget, like some of those episodes seemed to be, but it actually might be because they have too much of a budget. You could clearly tell that they heavily upgraded their cameras, heck it even seems like they but a bunch of new ones, and a lot of graphics and special effects seem to be upgraded due to them having more money.
But thats the thing, when Doctor Who had a low budget they had to sell it to people through the story, through really really good writing. So that even if you are looking at terrible CGI, or what has got to be a bunch of tin cans or something, the writing and acting was so well done that the story out shined any issues with the graphics. But in this third episode, it seemed like it was the other way around. The graphics were great, the props were very well done, the make-up looked like a very experienced team of experts was involved, but the story was HEAVILY lacking.
I hope it was just this episode and isn't the setting of trend for what this new season will be like. Because I really liked Doctor Who for the imaginative stories and spot on acting, not the special effects. I just hope someone involved will realize that and not go too far.
Well, that was a rather long rant. Hm, back to cyborging the octopi!
No comments:
Post a Comment