Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #03510



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 01:10:35 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)


At 6:01 AM -0000 5/22/99, Dave Hrynkiw wrote:
:Sure Zoz. BOY that looks just like the one I saw in Star Wars. Exactly it.
:Yup. Uh-huh.

Presuming the trailer is anything like the movie, I'd say that the concept
is precisely the same, even though the details are somewhat different. A
device that alternates between walking a rolling, yes?

For what it is worth, I -have- read Terry Brooks' book based on the
screenplay and given what is seen in the trailer and what I've read in four
different reviews (you see, I don't have to go merely by your opinion) I've
got to stick to my guns and say that the concept is not a new thing under
the sun.

:I can see Mr. Lucas went to the library, ripped that picture
:out of a book

Perhaps he -owns- a copy of the book and needn't go to the library. He
needn't have gone off and "ripped that picture out of a book" but I find it
excessively doubtful that he's never seen it, nor the insect I described
ever in his life.

Are you claiming that you've never seen ANY of the work of M. C. Escher???
That you've never seen it adapted ANYWHERE?

Sure...

:for his heavy-gunned

Hrmm. Heavy-gunned. How long have large cannons been in use? How many
centuries now? Do you have a clue how large the guns were on the naval
destroyers during World War II? Are you supposing that "heavy guns" is a
new concept?

:force-fielded

I am certain that it would be trivial to find any number of SciFi stories
that used the concept of force-fields long before Mr. Lucas was born, and
seeing as how he is quite the afficiando of science fiction, I believe
there is at least half a chance that he remembered them before he made
-any- of his space operas. Perhaps skunks invented the first force-field
-- after all, it is merely defense at a distance, isn't it?

:Have you seen the flick?

Praytell, what difference does THAT make? Either the ideas are as old as
mud or they aren't. He didn't invent them.

:Get a life.

You've been on this list long enough to know the charter. I quote:

: 4.Appropriate use of the list:
: No flames or personal attacks, keep it objective.

Your response seems to be both a flame and a personal attack, no? Perhaps
in the future you'll keep such invective for private email.




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