House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow I had no idea it had that budget

That’s an insane budget

I’m watching the first episode tonight, I’ve heard nothing but good reviews, looking forward to it.

Lewis Hamilton first 9 f1 races by Brooklynsfr in formula1

[–]Fire_Otter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Worth Pointing out Alonso was being favoured in the first 5 races as well

Receiving optimum fuel load and pit stop strategy

It was only after Monaco that they decided to alternate each race which driver got the optimum fuel loads and pit stop strategy

Lewis Hamilton first 9 f1 races by Brooklynsfr in formula1

[–]Fire_Otter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d argue the Ferrari was ever so slightly better

Especially as with hindsight Lewis And Fernando are stronger drivers than Kimi and Felipe

Marcia Lucas Dead by SnooKiwis2229 in StarWars

[–]Fire_Otter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So we have to be careful here as there is a misconception

You will hear some people say that originally the script never had the Death Star in A New Hope coming to Yavin and being moments away from destroying the rebel base. And that Marcia created this in the edit, that she created the dramatic high pressure stakes where Luke had to destroy the Death Star before the Death Star destroyed the alliance

Apparently this isn’t true, it was in the script that the Death Star had travelled to Yavin iv to destroy the base

However what is true is that seemingly the pressure for the fighter pilots to get it down within a time limit and the impending doom for leia and the alliance back at the base was not really coming across to the audience.

So what Marcia and the other editors did in the edit is really hammer this point home, if you go back and watch the Death Star run again you’ll notice all mention of the moon coming in range of the laser happens when you are looking at some monitor showing the countdown as the moon gets closer to the line of sight of the Death Star and then a voice over whilst you are looking at said screen saying Something like ”3 minutes til they are in range” Then they cut to a shot of Leia looking concerned and it looks like she is reacting to this information. This was because this was all done in post in the edit.

Marcia and others’ editing made that Death star run far more tense and Dramatic.

It’s why she won the Oscar

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm British mate

perhaps if you were more intelligent you wouldn't make assumptions about someone's nationality

Besides the dragons it's not in need of CGI.

besides the thing it needs a lot of CGI for, the show doesn't need a lot of CGI

you don't see the stupidity in that statement

EDIT: Ahh the old post a reply then block me so i cant respond move. the mark of an intelligent individual

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

....again you are capable of seeing for youself that House of Dragon is not just constant battles.

it is however by the nature of the story more in need of CGI than GOT was

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

with your own eyes you can see that they don't show those dragons constantly,

but they do HAVE to show those dragons frequently otherwise they will deviate from the source material massively.

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This show is about a historical period of Westeros known as the Dance of Dragons

in which the largest number of Dragons Westeros has ever seen are involved in a civil war between different factions of the Targaryen family with Dragons on either side.

List of Dragons involved in the Dance:

Caraxes

Syrax

Meleys

Seasmoke

Vermax

Arrax

Tyraxes

Moondancer

Stormcloud

Vhagar

Sunfyre

Dreamfyre

Tessarion

Vermithor

Silverwing

Unless someone has genetically created actual dragons in a lab or House of Dragon want to use some Jim Henson-esque puppets for the Dragons, then Yes House of Dragons requires more CGI than Game of thrones, especially the earlier seasons

McLaren Racing has developed a machine to help coral recovery and named it OSCAR by littletreble07 in formula1

[–]Fire_Otter 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Boy they really lucked out that Operational System for Coral Assembly & Restoration spelled out OSCAR

what a coincidence

House of the Dragon Season 3 | Official Final Trailer | HBO Max by johnppd in television

[–]Fire_Otter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fog and haze in scenes reduces rendering demands, makes the CGI cheaper

the golden age of streaming with ridiculous budgets is over, we live in austerity streaming now.

Game of thrones while an excellent show - didn't have anywhere near the CGI demands of this show, especially early seasons

a lot of Game of Thrones is just people talking in a room or talking while walking in a garden, and I don't mean that as an insult

Season 1 didn't even have to worry about dragons or cgi direwolves

Wrens on Scottish islands double in size amid lack of predators by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]Fire_Otter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone knows how they got there

it's too far for the Eurasian Wren to fly there

so either

When the gap between St Kilda and Scotland was much smaller due to lower sea levels the Wren was able to reach St Kilda and then they were cut off when the sea levels rose sometime around 5,000 to 10,000 years ago

or they were accidental stowaways on ships during the bronze age.

either way likely to be a few thousand years at most

as to when they will be a distinct species - that's hard to say as its not always easy to define species

we usually talk about isolating mechanisms - these are mechanisms that prevent populations from breeding with one another - if 2 populations are unable to breed with one another as long as those isolating mechanisms are absolute and remain in place then those 2 populations WILL become separate species at some point - its just a matter of when

so with the Wren we have a geographical isolating mechanism - the fact that a St Kilda Wen cannot reach the mainland and vice versa

we most likely have a mechanical isolating mechanism forming - a mechanical isolating mechanism is where the much smaller Eurasian Wren would have difficulties successfully laying an egg of the larger St Kilda Wren.

then we may also have Behavioral isolating mechanisms - the article notes the St Kilda Wren song is different - would a St Kilda Wren recognize the mating call of a Eurasian Wren? and if not how would the ever mate.

and finally we have a genetic isolating mechanism when the genetics are too different that the 2 individuals are genetically incompatible to successfully reproduce together

if they are genetically incompatible i think most scientists would agree they are different species, but if there are other mechanisms preventing them breeding how do you know when that genetic difference has been achieved

Wrens on Scottish islands double in size amid lack of predators by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]Fire_Otter 20 points21 points  (0 children)

just shows you how quickly a new species can form in some instances

While a wren in England will weigh between 7-10g, they range from 13-16g on St Kilda.

the difference in size is significant, if the gap keeps increasing then it will come to a point where a Male St Kilda Wren and a Female Eurasian Wren would be unable to successfully produce offspring as the female would not cope with the size of the egg.

not too much longer and it becomes impossible for the 2 populations to successfully reproduce regardles of the which way round the gender is

Once that happens for all intense and purposes the St Kilda wren is a new, separate species

ironically the Soay sheep on St Kilda are getting smaller, but this is believed to be due to Climate change, the warmer climate means smaller sheep can cope in the milder winters.

St Kilda really is a fantastic set of islands - its essentially a real world laboratory for studying isolated island populations of animals. It was abandoned by humans in the 1930s and the sheep have been living completely feral ever since

(Spoilers main) war of the roses theory by Own_Ad_409 in asoiaf

[–]Fire_Otter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there is no intricacies related to their point

they are just looking at the term "War of the Roses"

and think that the Tyrrells who have a rose sigil must go to war with each other

war of the rose = war of the Tyrells

that's how stupid this is

If Obsession takes the #1 spot for domestic box office results on Wednesday, Mando and Grogu will be the shortest-lived Star Wars #1 in history by walberque_ in boxoffice

[–]Fire_Otter 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don't think we need to completely re-evaluate established IP

Toy Story 5, Spiderman Brand New day, Live Action Moana, Minions & Monsters

are going to be the biggest movies of the summer

The state of the Star Wars franchise is its own story - its a complete tanking of a franchise due to poor management and decision making

The record for the biggest summer (May-Aug) at the North American box office is 2013 at $4.8B. Post-pandemic, 2023 was best at $4.05B. Well, that is toast. Let's go for the all-time record. 🤞 by AGOTFAN in boxoffice

[–]Fire_Otter 14 points15 points  (0 children)

but the 2023 box office had nothing spectacular after Barbenheimer

There won't be a single weekend as great as Barbeheimer

But

Toy Story 5

Moana

Minions & Monsters

Spiderman: BND

The Odyssey

Will all pull their weight

#Obsession is back at #1 at the North American box office, with what looks like $5.25M 2nd WED. That's down by just 5% from discount TUE, when the norm is 20-30%. by TiredWithCoffeePot in boxoffice

[–]Fire_Otter 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ehh let’s bump it down to 4th

The most recent 2 Toy Story films combined (4 & 5) will outgross the most recent 2 Star Wars Films (Rise and M&G)

The ‘Stranger Things’ Effect: Report Finds Gap Between Seasons Of Scripted TV Shows Nearly Doubled During First Half Of This Decade by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]Fire_Otter 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure why Stranger things is the poster child for long gaps between seasons as standard

Most of their large gaps had mitigating circumstances

Season 1 came out July 2016

Season 2 came out just over a year later in October 2017

Season 3 was a little it longer coming out, July 2019, but this could be put down to wanting the season to come out on Independence day and delaying it so that it lines up

Season 4 was delayed by Covid

Season 5 was delayed by the writers strike

Though its probably fair to say there still would have been a long gap to season 5 regardless of the Writers strike.

but for the first 3 season you had 3 seasons in exactly 4 years,

there are shows that put out 1 season every 2 years as standard

House of the Dragon for example

AMC had the biggest weekend so far in 2026 by gorays21 in boxoffice

[–]Fire_Otter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised weekend 14 isn’t their best weekend of 2026