> From: Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
What was annoying? The graphics or the personalities?
> Some very cool space stations & ships. The various asteroid stations
It reminded me of Heavy Metal the Movie. They were functional and not fancy
with "warp nacelles" out on wings.
> Storywise & for characters, it's a weak movie... Most of the
(plot:
> simple; ending: silly...)
They didn't spend too much time in character development, but they only had 90
minutes (if that) for a movie. The hero is a teenager or maybe a bit older, of
course he whines. I'm surprised he hadn't been tossed out an airlock a long
time ago, though. I hated the ending. See spoiler below.
> It does have nasty alien badguys (who blow Earth up) who are probably
They reminded me of Phantom Warriors from the computer game Master of Magic.
> Verdict: Worth getting to if you can get in cheap (Tuesday is
I'm glad I saw it since these type of movies are rare (space opera) but not
glad I paid the price to see it (even at matinee price).
Glen (spoilers alert)
Let's make a solar system in 15 minutes with planets cool enough to walk on.
*yuck* And what was to keep other alien races from just taking
this brand-spanking new planet? The humans had no
warships to defend it.
The enemy: What a "nice" way to get rid of the enemy,
no bloody/oozy bodies to clean up. Although I hated
them for blowing up the Earth so good riddance.
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
Spoiler
> Let's make a solar system in 15 minutes with planets
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 GBailey@aol.com wrote:
> > From: Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
The personalities, mostly. The 'hero' spent most of his time whining, and
almost all of the aliens were played for laughs. The graphics were good,
although there were scenes where the cel-drawn characters looked a bit
strange against the CG backgrounds. Mostly that was all well done, though.
> > Some very cool space stations & ships. The various asteroid
Yes - I've been thinking of FT asteroid bases for ages, and that salvage
base has provided further inspiration.
> > Storywise & for characters, it's a weak movie... Most of the
(plot:
> > simple; ending: silly...)
but
> not glad I paid the price to see it (even at matinee price).
** Further Spoilers **
> Let's make a solar system in 15 minutes with planets
Hey, using the 'energy beings' as a source for your new planet had a certain
elegance... One thing I think the producers got right: The
constant heavy rain on the surface of the new planet - that should last
a couple of thousand years, though, so all those new colonists might get a
wee bit tired of it... Of course, any ship/system that can create a
whole planet can probably speed the process along a bit.
The ending was schmaltzy, no question. Lots of great-looking drifter
ships in that very final scene, though. Too bad about the characters clogging
up the screen!
> From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@clark.net>
Oh definitely. That came to mind and I didn't want to remember it. But you
just had to bring it up, didn't you? I liked the movie (TAE) over all but
really really hated that ending.
Sorry this is long...See after the spoiler space.
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
> > From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@clark.net>
I loved every minute of it!
Just purchased the novelization. The book explains a little about the Drej,
and why.
Read pages 30 to 35. In this section the Drej Queen was thinking about the
situation.
In short:
The Drej come from another universe. It seems their hobby is to enter other
universes, and spread their race across each one. In our universe the big drej
ship was the "colony" ship. They had been here for a while. Earth on the other
hand (my impression) has been wandering around the galaxy a while. I think it
is a "crowded" universe. (ie: all the good realistate has been taken
allready...also the book explains that Korso's ship is Earth made.)
The Drej ship was equiped with the Drej's most powerfull weapon....Something
to do with the gadget that contains the "White Dwarf
Star" the ship uses as a power plant. The ship has an "artifact" --
built by the Drej before the ship left whereever it was. The Drej
"Colonists" were not told how to build/repair the artifact, so that way
there would be only one copy, and it couldn't be stolen by anyone. But
however, the artifact was damaged by "biobods" a few millinea ago.
(Biobods--Drej term for matter based life.)
Ever since, the Drej have been on the lookout for anyone who comes anywhere
close to them techinologically.
Now we come to the question of: "Why did the Drej blast the Earth?" The book
explains that the Drej had stealth agents combing the galaxy, looking for any
threats. One of these agents was on earth, observing a simple experiment. Yes
the short scene of the professer duplicating a box. This experiment was
reported to the Queen instantly. (The Drej are not hive minded, the Queen can
use the senses of any Drej at any time, but only one at a time.) The Queen
moved the big ship to Earth, as fast as it could reach it.
This gave the humans the time necessary to construct the Titan, and all of
those other ships. (I suspect that the Titan's original purpose was to create
realistate humans could settle. So the Titan project was probably going long
before the movie takes place. Takes a long time to develop tech like that.)
After the Earth was distroyed, the Drej Queen was challenged and distroyed by
an underling. The new Queen desided that the experiment was really hoax to
keep the Drej off balance, costing the humans the Earth in the process. She
also desided that the humans were no longer a threat, and didn't move to wipe
them out. Some time after that the current Queen took over. She cursed the
builders for not providing specs on the artifact, and the queen that blasted
the Earth. She thinks the tech the humans had just might have been used to
repair the artifact! Thats why the Drej were searching for the Titan. With
that ship, they could repair their damaged artifact.
IMHO, this explains things quite nicely.
> Donald Hosford wrote:
> Sorry this is long...See after the spoiler space.