It's Been A Long Road...

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Re: It's Been A Long Road...

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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:
Graham Kennedy wrote:Wouldn't it be fun to see Kelvans done properly via decent CGI? "Immense beings, a hundred limbs which resemble tentacles. Minds of such control and capacity that each limb is capable of performing a different function."
We can almost certainly do something decent on a TV budget with that, methinks. It's a good idea, as long as their minds are as alien as their bodies.

You know, I was thinking about all the things they could potentially do with modern special effects. But then I realized they almost certainly won't. I'm reminded of a James Cameron quote about making Avatar where the Na'vi weren't even supposed to be mammals but early in design he declared that the females "had to have tits".

Basically people seem to do a horrible job of connecting and relating to non-human forms. Writers know this and so while we might get a pet and plenty of weird species of the week I think they're going to be sticking to the bumpy head formula.
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