Should we Whoosh?
POSTED BY: Zicsoft
UPDATED: Monday, August 5, 2002 00:02
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I don't know if this means anything, but... I saw something on that promo that aired during X-Files that no one can find on the internet. I watched it this morning, and there is one part where everyone is on the bridge and someone says, "Everyone hold on." I guess they were about to move or go into battle or whatever. I guess that means there's a reason to hold on, so we might have the bumpy ride some people have been talking about.
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Originally posted by Mana:
I don't know if this means anything, but... I saw something on that promo that aired during X-Files that no one can find on the internet. I watched it this morning, and there is one part where everyone is on the bridge and someone says, "Everyone hold on." I guess they were about to move or go into battle or whatever. I guess that means there's a reason to hold on, so we might have the bumpy ride some people have been talking about.
Oh well, another one of my brilliant theories shot down. I guess you can't have a Space Opera without a "Everyone hold on!" scene now and then. And you spaceship had better make whooshing noises as it goes by!
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I think Fox will want Whoosh but if Joss is indeed making an anti-star trek/estabpished Sci Foi sitcom series, then going for grit and reality would suggest Whooshfree. Silence could work really well to get away from the space opera that dominates the market, brining a new sense of eerie reality to the show.
This should also apply to ordinance exchanges between ships in space...docking shots everything when shot from a POV not in a ship...
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I know the difference. Inertia. Gravity. Really.
I feel silly for having forgotten it when I was posting, though. 
Comfy chairs for everyone!
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On behalf of my dad, who will find this an excuse to slag off firefly if it ever comes to Britain and if I am still living with him and can afford cable, or a tv. um..yeah, there shouldn't be gravity unless something is spinning. I spose it could propulse (not a word) and spin, but the serenity looks a little asymmetric for that; not that that mattes in space, but presumably they land, else the horses can exist without atmosphere, hah! Unless it uses different engines whilst in low orbit where gravity would still effect. Okay, rambling.
No wooshing, despite my adoration for the seismic charges in AOTC (which is not dissimilar from the hypnotoad on Futurama), unless you wanna POV from inside the ship, that would be noisy.
"I live by my wits. A calling that affords me, at times, no great measure of security."
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Oh, and please no flying round corners, why most of space is sans-anomalies, why not take straight lines people, its just an excuse to show more of the ship
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Whoosh is fine when we are at sublight, actualy perhaps a low throaty Star Trek RUMBLE would be even better. Give my subwoofer a nice workout! 
But when the Serenity engages her Firefly drive i want a WHOOSH-BOOM!
Every good sci-fi show from Buck Rodgers on has had an exciting WHOOSH-BOOM when we hit lightspeed! I get very upset with Star Trek :TOS when Kirk calls for Warp 8 and we cut outside and i am assulted by the Enterprise rolling along WITHOUT WHOOOOSH-BOOM!
Give me WHOOSH-BOOM or give me death!
enTranced 
One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape
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Actually, Whooshing makes more sense in FTL travel. What's a little noise in a vacuum when you're ignoring one of the fundamental laws of physics?
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So, when the ass-end glows, is that moving to faster-than-light? Coz then there'd be a delay before we saw the glow. the ship would have to arrive and then glow (besides the fact that its impossible). The serenity would churten!
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