STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC Opening Cinematic

[filkertom]

Screw this being an MMO -- I got more juice out of this than the entire prequel trilogy. Although the facial animations were a bit stiff. I certainly care more about these characters than I ever did Anakin. And, to save you the hunt, the move you want to watch again starts at 3:02.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

The SW fanbase has always struck me as pretty conservative in terms of continuity visual and otherwise, but yeah, it did seem almost a bit silly how close the designs are despite being ages prior to the movies.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Well in a lot of SF there's ancient tech that's more advanced than the current weapons, but they never explain how this technology was lost. This could be some of it. During the war production centers could be destroyed, resources lost, manufacturing shifted and the original plans scrapped.

But yeah, overall you're right. It's silly about things from a long, LONG time ago are more sophisticated than things from a long time ago. Something like that never really happened in human history. Even during the dark ages technology advanced. They just advanced very slowly.

[writer-jack.livejournal.com]

The loss of old technology has a valid historical perspective. Even now we are just beginning to understand "Greek Fire" although archeologists are still in disagreement over whether it was a bomb or flame thrower. In either case modern weapon experts have reproduced how it "might" have been done without really knowing. We are only just beginning to appreciate the clockworks and robots of the Greeks, and the clever ways they used gravity (falling water, falling sand, etc) to power their machines. All of that technology was lost for over two thousand years and wasn't rediscovered until we had already re-invented it. We found the Antikythera mechanism over a century ago but ourselves had not yet developed the technology to truly understand what a marvel it was until recently. That's an demonstrative example in our own times that even finding old technology doesn't mean it can be understood until new technology has evolved past the old tech and spawns the tools to examine and understand the old tech. If a light saber were to fall out of the sky today, could we understand it's inner workings and reproduce it? Likely not, the power source and inner circuitry would be too dense for us to understand its construction with our current tool sets. We would have to evolve our own technology beyond light sabers to understand, appreciate and reverse engineer the Jedi toy.