Re: Star Trek TOS Special Edition Starts Sept 16th.
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| now those same critics of TOS fx are clamoring that the OLD shots look "realistic"? that's a huge paradox cause they said the fx sucked... but oh no, the new CG looks even worse? but that's what you'd expect from such a picky group. |
Eh? I think you're conflating separate people. In any case, it's a well-known fact that photography of a real model gives a subtly different visual appearance than any electronically-generated effect, providing an increased sense of realism, regardless of how "realistic" it is.
My objection to the "new" effects is that they don't really accomplish anything, as the difference from the original shots is mostly minimal, and where departures are made they are not always for the better.
In particular, the "phaser blast" effect in Balance of Terror looked like an ellipse drawn in MS Paint, with a little milkiness effect superimposed on the centre — that being the only one which struck me as looking like a video game. Also, as I said, the planet effects look screwy (and the use of some NASA topographic model of Mars for the red planet in the opening sequence is a head-scratcher).
I've never really complained about the old effects, even at their worst (except the shadows in Spectre of the Gun, but that whole episode was so surreal that it hardly spoilt the mood). I just wanted a cleanup on the film elements and a HD transfer, and even watching in 480i DTV here, it's clear they did that.
