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Dec. 15th, 2005 09:30 amUff da. Today's going to be a busy day. I'm going up to Cervalis at lunchtime to install SQL Server and our remote access software so that from now on I don't have to go up there to do installs. I'm currently doing a writeup of a hosted spam/virus filter service to present to our COO as a replacement for our current software, and when I get done at Cervalis I have to come home and do Christmas shopping.
Phbleah.
Methinks tonight I shall watch me some Clone Wars, which I have yet to do despite the purchase being two days ago. And, possibly, cobble together a bit more of the structure of the two Prequels That Never Were... that's a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar thing. I decided ages ago that in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gone_byebye's world, the Lord of the Rings movies were never made. The Bakshi film exists, and the Rankin-Bass Return of the King exists, but Peter Jackson's just a brilliant-yet-hobbity horror movie director. However, the Law of Conservation of Fandom- the amount of both Good and Suck present in Things Fannish remains the same from universe to universe in which SF/F fandom exists- prevails. All the Good that went into the LOTR flicks in our world went directly into the Star Wars prequels. All the Suck went into the Star Wars Extended Universe material. I know that some of you like that stuff here, and some of you consider it pretty awful- I don't really care as I haven't read any of it. It's just that in gone_byebye's version of reality, the Extended Universe material is, almost universally, as bad as the worst of the Bakshi flick. Fans in that world are almost afraid to put EU books next to good books, because the good books will turn awful just by proximity... so they were quite naturally terrified that the prequels would turn out equally vile. In that world, however, Lucas made some very wise decisions-
- He hired Fran Walsh to write the scripts
- He went back to the Joseph Campbell backbone repeatedly when he was coming up with the ideas to pass to Fran
- He did overuse CGI aliens to some degree, but based most of them on motion captures from an actor named Andy Serkis
- He resisted the urge to interfere with the script-writing too much and accepted that other people's suggestions of 'this part is really stupid' had merit, which may be the most important aspect of the whole affair
And so on and so forth. The Prequels That Never Were are Ray's world's versions of Episode I and II, and they're titled The Price of Order and Clone Error respectively. Episode III was still called Revenge of the Sith. Like I said, they were all good. Really good. Really damn good. As in, Revenge of the Sith won thirteen Academy Awards, and several members of the audience from swanky upscale studios were caught on tape looking as if they were ready to chew off their own legs to get away from the fact that a movie with droids and lightsabres had won Best Picture.
Phbleah.
Methinks tonight I shall watch me some Clone Wars, which I have yet to do despite the purchase being two days ago. And, possibly, cobble together a bit more of the structure of the two Prequels That Never Were... that's a
milliways_bar thing. I decided ages ago that in gone_byebye's world, the Lord of the Rings movies were never made. The Bakshi film exists, and the Rankin-Bass Return of the King exists, but Peter Jackson's just a brilliant-yet-hobbity horror movie director. However, the Law of Conservation of Fandom- the amount of both Good and Suck present in Things Fannish remains the same from universe to universe in which SF/F fandom exists- prevails. All the Good that went into the LOTR flicks in our world went directly into the Star Wars prequels. All the Suck went into the Star Wars Extended Universe material. I know that some of you like that stuff here, and some of you consider it pretty awful- I don't really care as I haven't read any of it. It's just that in gone_byebye's version of reality, the Extended Universe material is, almost universally, as bad as the worst of the Bakshi flick. Fans in that world are almost afraid to put EU books next to good books, because the good books will turn awful just by proximity... so they were quite naturally terrified that the prequels would turn out equally vile. In that world, however, Lucas made some very wise decisions-- He hired Fran Walsh to write the scripts
- He went back to the Joseph Campbell backbone repeatedly when he was coming up with the ideas to pass to Fran
- He did overuse CGI aliens to some degree, but based most of them on motion captures from an actor named Andy Serkis
- He resisted the urge to interfere with the script-writing too much and accepted that other people's suggestions of 'this part is really stupid' had merit, which may be the most important aspect of the whole affair
And so on and so forth. The Prequels That Never Were are Ray's world's versions of Episode I and II, and they're titled The Price of Order and Clone Error respectively. Episode III was still called Revenge of the Sith. Like I said, they were all good. Really good. Really damn good. As in, Revenge of the Sith won thirteen Academy Awards, and several members of the audience from swanky upscale studios were caught on tape looking as if they were ready to chew off their own legs to get away from the fact that a movie with droids and lightsabres had won Best Picture.
