Coming away from a Stargate episode, I often feel more like I’ve had a light snack than a full meal. I feel like about half the stories this season have only had one plotline. When they do multiple storylines it’s almost always for the better — though if one of the multiples involves Sam and an irritating child actor then perhaps it could be avoided.
That said, for taking one simple idea and exploring it in detail, this episode was one of my favourites this year. A solid, if unimaginative, science fiction story.
The zoom in business was unintentionally (I assume) amusing. I’m impressed that people can still pull that sort of crap after the Buffy episode that took the piss so brilliantly. “Zoom in!” “It’s a VCR! I can’t zoom in.” “Hey, pause it.” “Guys, it’s just a normal VCR, it doesn’t… Oh, wait. we can do pause.”
Andy 2 February 2006, 05:11 AM
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That was one of my favourite jokes from Buffy. I loved Cordelia complete ignorance of the ability of technology.
I don’t understand how images can be magnified in that way. Unless I’ve missed something in the field of image processing, you can’t just take a picture and add more detail. The only way it is possible is if they are somehow rescanning the source at a higher resolution; like they just turned on the HDTV button.
Tom 2 February 2006, 05:21 AM
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Season Three of Buffy is possibly the funniest season.
I suppose you could argue that they’re rescanning the brain patterns. But as you say, they were supposed to be all shifty and immutable. I’d expect things to change and flit about as one tried to get more detail, but that’s only based on film representations of memory. I suspect the actual science would have real trouble reprocessing memories to a handy graphical interface.
Andy 2 February 2006, 10:18 AM
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The humans in Pandora’s Star had memory recording knowledge. They could take the memory record out of a dead person and clone them a new body but they could only view the memory in real time.
andy 2 February 2006, 06:28 PM
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Tom
2 February 2006, 05:05 AM
Coming away from a Stargate episode, I often feel more like I’ve had a light snack than a full meal. I feel like about half the stories this season have only had one plotline. When they do multiple storylines it’s almost always for the better — though if one of the multiples involves Sam and an irritating child actor then perhaps it could be avoided.
That said, for taking one simple idea and exploring it in detail, this episode was one of my favourites this year. A solid, if unimaginative, science fiction story.
The zoom in business was unintentionally (I assume) amusing. I’m impressed that people can still pull that sort of crap after the Buffy episode that took the piss so brilliantly. “Zoom in!” “It’s a VCR! I can’t zoom in.” “Hey, pause it.” “Guys, it’s just a normal VCR, it doesn’t… Oh, wait. we can do pause.”
Andy
2 February 2006, 05:11 AM
That was one of my favourite jokes from Buffy. I loved Cordelia complete ignorance of the ability of technology.
I don’t understand how images can be magnified in that way. Unless I’ve missed something in the field of image processing, you can’t just take a picture and add more detail. The only way it is possible is if they are somehow rescanning the source at a higher resolution; like they just turned on the HDTV button.
Tom
2 February 2006, 05:21 AM
Season Three of Buffy is possibly the funniest season.
I suppose you could argue that they’re rescanning the brain patterns. But as you say, they were supposed to be all shifty and immutable. I’d expect things to change and flit about as one tried to get more detail, but that’s only based on film representations of memory. I suspect the actual science would have real trouble reprocessing memories to a handy graphical interface.
Andy
2 February 2006, 10:18 AM
The humans in Pandora’s Star had memory recording knowledge. They could take the memory record out of a dead person and clone them a new body but they could only view the memory in real time.
andy
2 February 2006, 06:28 PM
New secondary pic.
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