[DEL: Today :DEL] Yesterday in the Trinity Universe: a whole bunch'a nothin' in there

[aberrantangels]

How I got the impression this happened today, I couldn't explain under {fast-penta,Veritaserum}.

August 17
[Aberrant] On PBS' "Speak Out", media and culture critic Paul Nielman of Columbia University criticizes the isolation caused by popular VR systems like Vir-Gogs.

His point is underlined by the ad on the opposite page for Vir-Gogs Junior, with Cyber-Trance Junior. It takes the "electronic babysitter" to a whole new horrendous level.

He also points out that "Most of what's available so for for Vir-Gogs are adaptations of existing movies and TV shows", done by computer. "It's colorization all over again." And it meddles with the original creators' visions. "If George Lucas decides that he wants to digitize and dimensionalize the Star Wars series for another special edition, that's fine with me. No one else, though, has any right to touch those films or change them in any way."

Comments

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

That last bit seems kind of stupid to me: since when would George Lucas, in ANY universe, be slow or reluctant to do anything that potentially could make him loads of money?

I don't see how LucasFilm wouldn't be on the leading, nay the ragged edge of technological advance in putting old movies in new formats, confident in the knowledge that for every fan whining about the purity of the original there's a dozen practically having wet dreams at the thought of full 3-D immersion in the universe of their fantasies...