Voices of a Distant Start

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:53 am

Did anyone else think this sucked?
The CG blew balls, it was horribly unispired, the dialogue was hardly 3rd grade level, the animation itself was awful...
It seemed to JUST PLAIN SUCK.

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:27 am

Did you not realize how it was made?

I thought it was good! Emotional!

Declan_Vee · Post by **Declan_Vee** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:51 am

Hitori wrote:Did you not realize how it was made?

I thought it was good! Emotional!

x2
Although not very well thought out. To modify a favourite quote of mine from Red vs Blue.

"If you've got a ship that's capable of faster than light travel. Why not put the messages on a ship and use it instead?"

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:39 am

Declan_Vee wrote:
Hitori wrote:Did you not realize how it was made?

I thought it was good! Emotional!
x2
Although not very well thought out. To modify a favourite quote of mine from Red vs Blue.

"If you've got a ship that's capable of faster than light travel. Why not put the messages on a ship and use it instead?"

Because they need the ships for another purpose? Perhaps the faster than light travel wasn't accurate enough, since they didn't know where they landed after that first battle...

In any case

to the original poster. Hoshi no Koe is a classic.

-DOKool

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:37 am

HungryCrackPot wrote:Did anyone else think this sucked?
The CG blew balls, it was horribly unispired, the dialogue was hardly 3rd grade level, the animation itself was awful...
It seemed to JUST PLAIN SUCK.

It was made in 9 months or so (or around that) on a Mac. And since I found myself nearly crying after watching it, I'd say he did a damn good job on it.

Stephano_J · Post by **Stephano_J** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:04 am

I enjoyed it. Sure the whole concept was a little flawed but it was emotional enough. I was allmost bawling.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:18 am

For a very short movie, it can really make an emotional impact on you, and the mechas looked cool. I heard that ADV's dubbing a.k.a. "adaptation" by STEVEN FOSTER "cough" was meh.

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:46 pm

Declan_Vee wrote:"If you've got a ship that's capable of faster than light travel. Why not put the messages on a ship and use it instead?"

It's easy to think of handwaving technobabble reasons.

* Maybe the FTL travel has to be a one-way trip. For instance, one consequence of General Relativity is that if you have faster-than-light travel, even for information, then you can have time-travel causality paradoxes of the "kill your grandfather" variety. Nature appears to abhor causality paradoxes, and it's possible to imagine that a requirement for FTL travel to be one-way might be part of how they get around that.

* Maybe they only have one FTL ship. That might especially be likely if they got their FTL technology from an alien artifact that they don't really understand and can't reproduce.

* Maybe they do have FTL communication that works, but it's too expensive even for military use, let alone some kid's love letters. That's plausible if they have to send a whole starship just to send a message, and their starships are busy fighting a major war.

* Maybe she's not really supposed to be sending messages back home at all (security reasons?) and so has to make do with what communications systems she can access "under the table".

* Maybe the nature of the ship's travel was poorly explained, and it's not actually FTL but rather near-light-speed, and they're stuck with light-speed communications; so when she travels out to the far reaches of the galaxy, actually a lot of time is passing and she stays young due to relativistic time dilation.

Of course, none of those explain how a cell phone can operate light-years away from the nearest cell tower. But really, that's all missing the point. The story could equally well have been set a thousand years earlier, with sailing ships and horse caravans. It's not about communications or transportation technology - it's about human beings separated by time and space. You are the same kind of people who are all, "Why didn't Gandalf just convince the eagles to go drop the Ring in the volcano?".

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:58 pm

holy shit, you are a bunch of pansies.
I couldn't even get myself to START feeling sorry for them. THE STUPID FUCKER JUST WALKED AWAY FROM IT.
It wasn't that emotional at all. I had more emotion when Tiny Tim died in A Christmas Carol.
They tried like shit to be depressing and did a HORRIBLE JOB. If that left you crying, I'd hate to see you all watch Bambi.

Wargames · Post by **Wargames** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:02 pm

rofl
thats funny

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