This is actually a little brilliant. All of J.J Abrams' projects from the last decade, (With a few exceptions...like Star Trek) have been so reliant on the little internet video clips that everyone gawps over and pours over every single detail that this 3 frame clip is both a brilliant send up of that AND genuinely…

THIS.

WITH WHAT HAND?!

I actually had the "1939, 1940" question too, except like Rory's warp to Winter Quay, it was space-based and not time based. If New York's the problem, why not just hop a train down to Jersey? Or Washington DC? Or a plane to London, and signal the Doctor there for pickup?

Hehe, I pulled up JUST as they ran out of parking, after sitting in a line of cars 30 minutes before. I wound up parking a mile away and hoofing it for 2 miles up to the observatory. Actually wasn't that bad once you got up there!

Under US law that is. Maybe future spacey law holds up different.

And China loses its number one customer American companies scramble to cut costs and reduce foreign spending, in some cases outright going out of business. Their economy gets smacked on the kneecap too.

Oooh, that would make sense. I'd be interested to see how the game actually shows it, since there are subtexts already regarding propaganda and the portrayal of historical figures, but I see why students of the era might be a little miffed by the basic marketing.

I mean it's a bit of an exaggeration to say the Tea Party "Started the Revolution," but the clip seems otherwise accurate, if a bit playing to the American nationalistic side. What's wrong with it?

Maybe he's not supposed to be a different tier of Flood? All the games have had palette swaps for some classes of enemy, like the grunts or a few of the elites.

Phewph. Got scared for a minute there that the flood were back in the campaign. Should be fun though for multiplayer though!

Nice! Yeah, someone did kind of pass out from the heat shortly before the shuttle arrived...bit of a panic moment there. This photo's from the second pass before it banked south again, but the first pass was right overhead. I was glad to have picked the Griffith Observatory not only because we were so close in…

It was nuts. Every single viewing site for the Shuttle was occupied to max capacity. You could even see people lined up over the Santa Monica Mountains (Where the Hollywood sign is) just waiting to catch a glimpse of the shuttle. Listening to KPCC on the way up, it sounded like the area like LAX was becoming a…

From Griffith Observatory near Los Feliz! Next person to talk about how Americans don't care about science is gonna get a flood of photos from me showing off the massive crowd that was there.

Oooh, gotcha, that would make more sense. Carry on. >.>

....Said the guy whose name/avatar is Ezio 'official panty weter' Auditore?

Oooh, I see. So you'd have an entire animatic that was 1:1 with the final video with the voice track and basic sfx, then replace that with actual animation and improved SFX/Design as you finished.

See, a part of me knew that, and a part of me was being dumb and didn't remember that a part of me knew that.

Interesting animation technique—she used the entire sound design to influence how she showed the action, including some Wheatley's crashing around...reverse-building picture on a locked sound design. Wonder if it affected some of the ideas she had/wanted to execute.

Eh, probably not, the rights are in a tailspin right now due to an unexepcted buyer snapping them up at the last second. I forget what the current status is, but you're more likely to see a sequel for Terminator than a reboot. That's what everyone's been talking about.