Phlegmak said:
Those screenshots that were posted don't look so innocent. The grainy Star Trek screenshots are what I remembered when watching it as a child. Those colorful shots are totally unlike anything I saw. Those look like new colors. It's not a simple cleanup. A simple cleanup would be making a dirty film back the way I remember it as a child. Adding new colors and cleaner textures is a change. That's a George Lucas change in my opinion. I unnecessarily reiterate: let art be as it is.
Point taken and accepted.
I remember the show from its initial run, and I have been immensely enjoying the changes. I also have no issue with what Lucas has done, since it was his baby to begin with. I do not agree with all the chnages, but feel he has every right to make them -- especially if he argues he would have done some of it had the tech been available at that time (not appliable to TOS, I know).
Are you honestly saying you like the bland & lifeless looking planets more than a better and more accurate representation of what a biolgically diverse planet would look like?
I think it is a bit of folly to think the originator should hold absolute dominion over works of art such as movies, plays and other three dimensional, human acted works. Elsewise, no one would ever be allowed to remake a version of Mac Beth or any other Shakespeare work.
The only fear I can see is that the updating would reveal inherent flaws in the original work. The originals are still available, and making new copies better in no way could ever diminish the originals, except in someone's mind.
Now, there is current talk that they are getting ready to remake Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid with Matt Damon & Ben Afleck (!?) in the title roles (even though Clooney & Pitt would be better fits). As much as this holds no interest to me, I am not threatened by it, since it will not make the original go away, or diminsh my love for it.
Just sayin.
