{"id":464,"date":"2005-05-02T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/05\/02\/reviews-and-a-design-challenge\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T13:03:00","slug":"reviews-and-a-design-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/05\/02\/reviews-and-a-design-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews and a design challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick review of the <i>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide<\/i> movie:<\/p>\n<p>You should probably go see it if you like any of the other versions, or you like SF comedy. Sure, they took a lot of stuff out. (Cutting 3 hours of radio play down to 90 minutes will do that.) Sure, they changed a lot of stuff. (This was a practice Douglas Adams himself was quite fond of.) But if you go with an open mind and don&#8217;t insist on a copy of one of the other <i>Hitchhiker&#8217;s<\/i> media, you ought to have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>Quick review of last Friday&#8217;s <i>Enterprise<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>Plot? Who cares? Space battle scenes with a certain class of starship&#8230; *happy sigh* (There&#8217;s some other eye candy too, for het-male or compatible formats.)<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness&#8230; I wonder how a 21st-century costume designer would design a believable futuristic military uniform that would provide eye candy for het-females and compatible? Bill Theiss tried showing some leg in the men&#8217;s &#8220;skant&#8221; uniforms for TNG, and the design died a quick, ignoble death. It&#8217;s an interesting question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick review of the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide movie: You should probably go see it if you like any of the other versions, or you like SF comedy. Sure, they took a lot of stuff out. (Cutting 3 hours of radio play down to 90 minutes will do that.) Sure, they changed a lot of stuff. (This [&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":[7,43,30,16,36],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-costuming","tag-humor","tag-movies","tag-star-trek","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-7u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}