NegativeNull@lemm.ee@lemm.ee to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 10 months agoWait until you hear about a character named Jar Jar Binks! It's well worth the wait.pxscdn.comimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down16
arrow-up1385arrow-down1imageWait until you hear about a character named Jar Jar Binks! It's well worth the wait.pxscdn.comNegativeNull@lemm.ee@lemm.ee to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squarecrypticthree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoIt’s call en media res and it’s classic
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-210 months agoSure, but The Odyssey doesn’t have Odysseus awkwardly stepping around Scylla’s tail in bad CG.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoCG was still very primitive in bronze age Greece.
minus-squareSSTF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoEven the movie being en media res is a retcon. A New Hope was not called “Episode 4” until its re-release in 1981. Before then it was released and packaged as a stand alone story.
minus-squareAlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoVery few stories begin at the beginning of time. Even fewer have to retcon the romantic tension of the first episode because that was all they wrote or thought out.
It’s call en media res and it’s classic
Sure, but The Odyssey doesn’t have Odysseus awkwardly stepping around Scylla’s tail in bad CG.
CG was still very primitive in bronze age Greece.
Even the movie being en media res is a retcon.
A New Hope was not called “Episode 4” until its re-release in 1981. Before then it was released and packaged as a stand alone story.
Very few stories begin at the beginning of time.
Even fewer have to retcon the romantic tension of the first episode because that was all they wrote or thought out.