{"id":129,"date":"2002-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/06\/11\/the-more-things-change\/"},"modified":"2002-06-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T10:00:00","slug":"the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/06\/11\/the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The more things change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This train of thought began as I watched Adobe Photoshop go through a complicated scripting sequence without any assistance from me&#8230; I began thinking of Rick Deckard&#8217;s wonderful photo-processing &#8220;Esper&#8221; machine. (Yes, I want one.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m thinking about <i>Blade Runner<\/i> and the fact that, in an unscientific poll of science-fiction fans, I&#8217;m one of the few viewers who prefer the theatrical release to the director&#8217;s cut. (Voiceover, less uncertain ending, and all).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to debate the merits of the two versions here, though it has occurred to me that it is the theatrical release that made <i>Blade Runner<\/i> one of the classics of SF film (and made it possible to produce a director&#8217;s cut release, before DVDs made such releases common).<\/p>\n<p>However, the discussion of the versions made me think about how we revise things in our heads. I watched hours of the old <i>Robotech<\/i> series last weekend, but used the remote to skip over the dull, boring, or actually painful parts. (Yes, I&#8217;m referring to Minmei.) The Internet produced the &#8220;Phantom Edit&#8221; version of <i>Star Wars Episode I<\/i> &#8211; in many opinions, a superior film. Douglas Adams himself wrote multiple variants of <i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i> &#8211; all official, and all contradictory.<\/p>\n<p>Then, while looking up information on Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Final Cut Pro&#8221;, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/bc\/2002\/002\/1.6.html\" target=\"_blank\">this web page<\/a> that compares such revisions to the Bible itself, where the Gospels contradict each other and concentrate on the parts that the individual writers found interesting. And I realized that people have been arguing about this for nearly <b>two thousand years<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the next time I go to a con and find an earnest discussion of how <i>Enterprise<\/i> has re-written the established history of the <i>Star Trek<\/i> universe, I&#8217;ll be less likely to jump in with both feet. If we&#8217;ve been revising our most sacred texts to personal taste for this long, Kirk and Picard don&#8217;t have much of a chance. *grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This train of thought began as I watched Adobe Photoshop go through a complicated scripting sequence without any assistance from me&#8230; I began thinking of Rick Deckard&#8217;s wonderful photo-processing &#8220;Esper&#8221; machine. (Yes, I want one.) So, I&#8217;m thinking about Blade Runner and the fact that, in an unscientific poll of science-fiction fans, I&#8217;m one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,30,33,16,9,18],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anime","tag-movies","tag-philosophy","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}