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Post by massiefan on Aug 6, 2007 18:46:48 GMT -5
*sigh*
Yeah...
*gazes wistfully into the distance*
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Post by colin on Aug 6, 2007 21:56:54 GMT -5
I'm sorry: the mainframe coolant plot device made me want to hit things. I couldn't get my head around the idea that not only will computer mainframes be that clumsy, huge, and fatally unrepairable (let alone that easily sabotage-able) fifty years from now.... I'm serious. Sorry, guys.  Understood. Inexplicable artificial gravity and whacky "relativity-and-causality-snubbing" FTL propulsion systems, for me, are usually the big killers of sci-fi credibility. But I can let that go if other plot elements are strong. I would think, theoretically, some sort of "multinodal" shipboard network with SERIOUS mirroring and failover/redundancy would be more apropos on a spaceship of that "tech level". In my mind's eye, any "node" would be capable of running all shipboard functions should other parts of the ship or other nodes get damaged. I could even see an onboard "hot site" or auxiliary network -- dormant and completely isolated from the primary net -- that could pick up the function of computing should all else fail. That makes more sense to me. IMO, I thought the scene was an excellent vignette to show that Mace would readily put himself in mortal danger to complete the mission. No more, no less. But, no, I completely understand what you mean about the tech level being wrong with the ICARUS mainframe. I think, in this case, the writer and director were paying homage to 2001 (HAL) and Alien (Mother)...especially invoking the "HAL sings Daisy" scene in 2001. Perhaps, in some weird way, they were even alluding to "Captain Powell" in Dark Star -- dead and frozen solid but still dispensing advice. Yea I feel both of you on this, I'm just goign to shake my head. *shakes head |
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Post by Starry_MelC on Aug 7, 2007 4:32:07 GMT -5
Yeah, and then when he dies, Cassie's hand flies to her mouth in this really dramatic way and she starts to cry, and then she drops down beside the mechanic and holds him in her arms and realizes that she DID actually love him all along and he is not only HOTT, but also brave, hott, selfless, reliable, hott, protective, intelligent, hott, and would've made a wonderful father. And he was hott (two t's makes it hotter). *sighs in wistful daydream of undeniable Massieness* ROFL... ouch, my sides hurt! ;D We ought to write down all these "what-if" scenes and send it to Danny to consider adding them in the DVD!  |
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Post by massiefan on Aug 7, 2007 23:42:32 GMT -5
Yeah. That would be SO AWESOME.
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Post by nimue on Aug 8, 2007 3:51:12 GMT -5
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 8, 2007 12:17:42 GMT -5
Yea I feel both of you on this, I'm just goign to shake my head. *shakes head D*mn, guy...you deserve an LY for actually reading all of my pseudo-scientific technobabble!!!!! Here ya go...  |
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 14, 2007 13:49:59 GMT -5
And I'm always thinking why Pinbacker still survives after Capa turns the shield into maximum... Pinbacker's sunbathing habits are something I've been trying to figure out too. To me, he looked pretty burned in the video they stumbled upon on Icarus I. That suggests he has been doing it for a while. Unless you think back to the imprint of a standing person you see outside Icarus I's observation room. Was that Pinbacker getting burned and running out of the room while the rest of the crew got incinerated? Did he make the video *after* this incident, hence the reference to dust(ash?) and the burnage? Although it would make more sense for the video to have been made when the computer was still operational, and it would not make as much sense for the crew to kill themselves unless Pinbacker already sabotaged the computer. Ehh... basically I've been wondering if Pinbacker spent his years on Icarus I sunbathing in the unfiltered observation room. Physically impossible, I'd think, unless he was somehow mutated by the sun's radiation over time. But if he can survive such a drastic decrease in Icarus II's filter... maybe he's used to it? And if he did sunbathe on Icarus I, wouldn't he have left a dust-less spot somewhere? And, for that matter, wouldn't there be footprints on the ship? Did he see Icarus II approaching and quickly tidy up before they boarded? |
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Post by nimue on Aug 14, 2007 20:57:43 GMT -5
The human body is a magnificent thing. Yes, it has the ability to greatly adapt to the circumstances it is being thrown upon. In Pinbacker's case... it adapted both physically and physiologically to his madness.
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Post by cococi on Sept 1, 2007 16:51:31 GMT -5
did pinbaker eat his colagues ,eat his own crap ? space rats or weed to surivive i dont understand how such an insane man would feed himself and why.. oh yea god talk... right kiling people after 7 years and stil at the looks of it prety good phisical shape ... um ok... being able to see? prety unlikely dusting around his traces? ,,, um maybe ^^ but kiling em ... come on they could have found a better guy than ths guy ..... i wonder how didnt they feel his stench from a mile away like a freak should smell was he bathing ? whit soap ? water ?nahh.. freaky guy -sun bath= nasty burns ;D ;D ;D
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Post by nimue on Sept 3, 2007 9:33:15 GMT -5
Their Oxygen Room was in a pretty good shape so that may explain how he survived on food. He didn't eat his colleagues as they were already pretty burnt when we saw them... and by the looks of it, no parts were missing (although they were pretty much made up of ash).
"i dont understand how such an insane man would feed himself and why"
--> Only a psychologist or an insane person can explain that, of course. And since I'm neither (I think), I can't explain that either.
One thing's for sure, I don't think he showered either but as for how the Icarus II crew couldn't smell his stench, probably because he most likely smelled like something burnt and seeing as how the rest of the crew were burnt, I don't think they would have thought much of it.
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