Blue & Green?

by **James. C** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:19 am

No - on second thoughs she should look for a partner elsewhere on Skybase. It's a big place

One of the few improvements over the original series

by **Marion** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:31 am

It has to be easier to draw a machine/ backdrop/ set and animate it, than to build it to scale from scratch, even if the actual process is skilled computer work - and I can well believe it would be, and don't mean to suggest those involved were any less than skilled professionals.
OCS was hand-made (so to speak) and occasionally looked it - but it was done with meticulous attention to detail and even now the 'special effects' are amazing.
I like the old Cloudbase - even if we never saw very much of the interior (and it would have been great to have seen around the place) but I can see that NCS has had some influence already - Dr Who and the Master, anyone? LOL.
Still, I take my hat off to both production teams - 1960, and 2005 (was it?) for jobs well done within the restrictions of their disciplines.

by **foster** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:38 pm

All we really saw of Cloudbase in OCS was the Control Centre, the lounge where the angels always sat and Cloudbase itself. (From what I remember anyway)

by **Serena Lewis** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:40 pm

...and sometimes the Officers Lounge! I think the Promenade Deck was in it once, wasn't it? And the Med Campus madea few appearances...

xx

by **foster** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:44 pm

Yeah we did see them both, sorry. We didn't see any hallways or engineering areas though.

by **Marion** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:51 pm

OCS characters didn't do a lot of walking - on account of it being difficult to get the strings through the doors - but then, even the wonders of CGI produced characters that bounced along the corridors, or rolled their hips like ships floundering in a storm.
They might be able to have a fencing match, but sometimes, chewing gum and walking looked to be too much for them to cope with!

by **foster** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:58 pm

In the episode, 'A Trap for a Rhino', I realised that when Scarlet fell out of the Hummingbird as it crashed into the Rhino looked a little weird...

by **gojohnniegogo** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:30 pm

Marion wrote:OCS characters didn't do a lot of walking - on account of it being difficult to get the strings through the doors - but then, even the wonders of CGI produced characters that bounced along the corridors, or rolled their hips like ships floundering in a storm.
They might be able to have a fencing match, but sometimes, chewing gum and walking looked to be too much for them to cope with!

I always found that quite charming, why walk when you have a cool walkway to take you the whole forty feet to the door! :grin:

by **foster** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:25 pm

I always found that quite charming, why walk when you have a cool walkway to take you the whole forty feet to the door!

It certainly is conveiniant!