Very belatedly (I honestly don't know if I just didn't have time for the last two weeks, or if I knew this was coming and wanted to put it off) adding my thanks and congratualtions on an excellent timeline.
This looks good.
I read somewhere that the BB-8 design was based on an idea for R2 that they just couldn't do at the time, so it probably wouldn't be too convergent if RS-4 has the spherical body.
I read this, thought "What with them being cousins" and was two paragraphs further on before I...
Appropriately enough for this TL, I first heard about it on the Muppets fansite Tough Pigs. I can't find it now, but it was a thesis on the topic "Why People Who Say Elmo Sucks Are Wrong".
I'm not familiar with that one, but I'm very much reminded of a Usenet argument I had around 2002 about a series of ads for Yorkie chocolate bars in which teenage girls have to dress up in false beards in order to buy the things because "It's not for girls!" The person I was arguing with held...
Most of these look brilliant. I particularly like the idea of post-Henson Disney animation getting more "Muppety", culminating in actual Muppet/Mouse crossovers.
A few I had particular thoughts on.
Wasn't there an Ella Fantgerald in the Muppets Tonight counterpart? I take it this isn't...
Okay, I have a lot of catching up to do...
Hmm, as far as I can tell A Canterbury Tale doesn't really have much to do with The Canterbury Tales. I'm kind of sorry we never got Universal pushing an animated movie set in World War I about three anthropomorphic animals in a small village near...
ISTR once hearing someone say that if there isn't a backlash, it means you haven't actually made any progress, so I guess this was inevitable.
So sort-of New Labour? Makes sense. If they downplay the economics (which admittedly won't be Gordon Brown's first instinct) and play up the social...
How very unlike governments IOTL…
Seriously, I find Diversitarianism unutterably weird in many ways, but the weirdest part isn’t that they do this stuff, it’s that they do it openly. Your country teaches that we were the baddies in a war a hundred years ago? Well, of course they do, and so they...
I somehow missed the boat on Firefly, and I’m not sure why, so I don’t know if TTL me would have watched Tranquility or not, but it sounds just as much like something you might expect him to watch.
I was initially confused, based on what I know about Firefly, that the execs would rather a...
Great to see Trek’s still using the Famous, Famous, Fictional format.
Hrmm. I see what they’re going for here, but it feels a bit like saying that gender equality is a luxury for societies that can afford it. My personal preference would be if post-Eugenics War culture takes the view that they...
This is some epic stuff.
I can just imagine TTL me sighing deeply at the overt mirroring of "I am your father", and then going "Wait, what?" when it turns out it's "a certain point of view" in reverse. I like being taken by surprise by a movie. And then maybe being a bit "So ...they're kind of...
Some cool stuff here. Is the Benny Bunny reboot puppetry or animated? (I suspect TTL me is probably a Brunny either way.)
I honestly can't remember what all happened with comic book companies ITTL, but OTL Barb was Dark Horse.
From the main thread:
It was made in 1989, so I think within the As OTL Unless Noted Zone. I don't know if Jim saw it IOTL, but I would guess that he would have appreciated what it was doing, even if it wasn't necessarily his kind of thing.
This sounds like another brilliant Muppet production that I'm sad doesn't exist.
So is the whole film a modernised version or does the plane take Kermit to 16th century Denmark? I prefer the latter idea, partly because it means Muppets in period costume, which is always fun, and partly because...