• MamboGator@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Jar Jar Abrams shouldn’t be allowed near another established franchise. Some of his original stuff is good, but his writing style is always just “ask questions now, come up with answers at the last minute before the script for the final chapter is due.”

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      5 months ago

      I hate that he’s absolutely obsessed with “red mercury” and puts it in everything including Star Trek.

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        5 months ago

        Like Ridley Scott and milk android or machine-blood. But he only makes original things so he gets a pass.

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        5 months ago

        i couldn’t find a single source for this on Google, with multiple different word combinations and arrangements. would you please explain what you’re talking about?

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          In Star Trek Magazine issue 144, Scott Chambliss, production designer on Star Trek, noted that the appearance of red matter as a “big red ball” was a reference to other productions that he had worked on with J.J. Abrams, including Alias and Mission: Impossible III.

          https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Red_matter

          It was called Red Mercury in Alias and Red Matter in Star Trek and I didn’t see Mission: Impossible III. The point is it’s a big red ball of stuff and he keeps putting it in his shows and movies.

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      5 months ago

      Where, IMO, a good story should start with some idea of where it’s heading. Maybe not initially, but at least at the broad strokes stage of creating a story.