Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03753
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: davidperry@mail.geocities.com
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 15:59:56 +0000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)
you know people call be a nerd?! I don't even like starwars that much
and i hate star trek, pokemon and wrestling.
Anyways, this is getting away from BEAM abit isn't it?
David Perry
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> jab
>
>
>
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I'm sure David sinceraly apologises if he
insulted anyone, it won't happen again.
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