Atrocities
August 7th, 2004, 12:47 PM
I am watching the old Robotech series for the first time in my life, mainly out of couriosity and such, and even though I find a lot of the stories to be poorly written, I am beginning to see that this is indeed a great story.
One thing that really struck me as interesting was the Last episode of the first saga, where Chyron's ship, covered in foleage lifts up from the earth and I am struck by the simularity that it has with the new Stargate Atlantis series. You see, the Wraith, who are also bluish beings of pure evil, had a super huge ship that had been on the planets surface for so long that it too had been covered by folage.
The creators of the series boasted that it had never before been done, a ship covered by trees and vegitation as if it were part of the forest in which it sat, and well here is a 20 year old cartoon that did that very thing.
It is true, it has all been done before. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
I often wonder if there will ever be another original, truly monumentally original idea ever again.
One thing that really struck me as interesting was the Last episode of the first saga, where Chyron's ship, covered in foleage lifts up from the earth and I am struck by the simularity that it has with the new Stargate Atlantis series. You see, the Wraith, who are also bluish beings of pure evil, had a super huge ship that had been on the planets surface for so long that it too had been covered by folage.
The creators of the series boasted that it had never before been done, a ship covered by trees and vegitation as if it were part of the forest in which it sat, and well here is a 20 year old cartoon that did that very thing.
It is true, it has all been done before. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
I often wonder if there will ever be another original, truly monumentally original idea ever again.