Roas and LeaveIt with some great comments and points. Haven’t watched enough reviews, but Roas point about RingWorld was excellent. At first, when I saw Ringworld, it was an eye-roll and thinking about what a cheap hack it was, but at the same time, it’s a way to show that they have the capability to show things that exist out there in other sci-fi concepts. Showing they can go there if they ever want to pull it off. Not sure when cinema starting doing that, but I see these hacks in comic books all the time, just blatant stealing ripoffs to put in their own stories. “Good writers borrow; great writers steal.” I have seen this elsewhere. In Dune sequel book, Hunters of Dune, they basically have a cat race that is a little bit like the Kzinti from Larry Niven, who wrote Ringworld. It comes off a little cheap, but at the same time, it comes off like tribute and homage. As bad as it was, I thought the RingWorld was kind of cool. Just a nod to another sci-fi writer saying we see you. Larry Niven is still out there at 83 years old. Did not know that. No disrespect, as I have read some of his material and enjoyed it. BDH directed this and maybe she will do RingWorld or Kzin in the future?
Roas and Gary nerdrage is becoming a thing and I’m here for it.
The butcher thing is amusing because the way things are going, food and meat might come out of a 3-D printer soon. Same with the Hologram tech. It will probably look better than portrayed in Star Wars in our lifetime. I have no problem with what they do to make it work for the story. Overall, it’s sword and planet. I like how things overall kind of comeback to either metallurgy or religion in terms of “The Force” or that that Mandalorians have their slogans and laws like some kind of monastic order.
It does go noticed these days that they are making nostalgia for things that the fans would rather forget. Kind of funny, really.
