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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Yes, they wanted a disassembled looking version of blade so the actors could be seen to be "building" it, but blade's armour and chassis is all welded together, so it would have required significant hacking to turn it into a disassembled-looking bot.
Hence Energize's bare chassis which was very close to being ready to drive was fitted with a an interesting replica of blade's lifting scoop and made driveable and referred to as "Build Bot"
Thanks for posting those video's Keroo's - a bit grainy quality wise, but seeing as how the only night I've been around to watch the show was one that there was no robot stuff on, its the first I've seen of the final product.
I'm a bit dissapointed they didnt show "Kill Bot" actually crashing through the doors of the pub, that looked great in my opinion.
It did actually push the doors open itself when I drove into them at full speed and charged in and then screeched to a great-looking slide stop (took 3 goes to get it to stop in the exact position they wanted it), but they seem to be deliberately keeping the bot's off-camera as much as possible at the moment. I suspect this is for two reasons..
1. As I said, its primarily a show about (alleged) people, and their sort of viewers are probably more interested in the social byplay and competition for toads attention over the robot by cindi, than they would be in spotting whether the robot has red wheels or window-winder drives.
Unlike us "Nerd" characters who usually find all that endless messy human-drama-interaction stuff incredibly boring (its the same stuff over and over again), and we are more interested in the details of the mechanics.
Thats generally why we end up actually knowing useful technical things that "cool" people dont understand, and why someone (Bill Gates ?) said "Be nice to Nerds, chances are you will end up working for one".
2. They're probably gradually tempting the other type of viewers with little flashes of the bot first, and will gradually reveal longer and longer shots of it as the sub-plot evolves. Remember, these guys have kept their TV show going non-stop for 20-odd years, they're probably masters at keeping people's attention on tenter-hooks to keep them coming back for tomorrows thrilling episode. .
Someone compared Soap-Opera's to a fractal in a book I read once, its an endlessly repeating cycle of visually pretty, but utterly meaningless detail. The faces and props change, but the game remains the same year after year. The props people I worked with said the basic plot-lines tend to repeat about every 18 months on average..
Anyway, Nerd-Fest or Soapie-brain-veg aside, its good to have our little sport on the small screen and into the awareness of the avergae joe.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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