Re Barry Lyndon; the scene at the son's deathbed is probably both the most affecting moment in all of Kubrick's movies and the high point of Ryan O'Neal's acting career. If O'Neal's Lyndon weren't played as such a remote, calculating S.O.B. then the impact of that scene would have been reduced tenfold.

Sorry Wes, Daniel Richter played the main ape-man.

@JammerJim, I'm flattered…I have to say that there is a certain measure of conjecture, but as this is in and around my line of work I wouldn't say it's a matter of big-brainedness but more to do with beating my head against this kind of stuff for years. So if there is a big brain, it's because of excessive bruising.

Dammit (Emperor) Jim, I'm a techie, not a Trekkie.

Argh, the most obvious point I should have made was that the difference between TOS and the later series was that in its day TOS would have been filmed, edited and completed like an actual movie, that being workprinted, edited on a Moviola or flatbed editor, had its negative conformed and a final 35mm print would have…

TNG, like 99% of American prime time drama of the day, was shot on 35mm film. Most of the effect elements were shot on film as well, if they were hard-edged objects like miniatures etc. (things such as phaser blasts, star fields etc. would have been more than likely generated electronically, but depending on their…

Quibble-a-thon
Reluctantly participating in this great mountain/molehill exercise, I offer a couple of ramblin' thoughts:

Narrative
…seems to be set up as a theme for the season, in some form or fashion:

Oh, damn. Eh? beat me to it.

Magical doorway machine
I remember being amused by seeing that one of the places the doorway lead was Toronto's City Hall.

I could have sworn I heard a transporter beam-up sound right before they cut back to the empty ferry deck.

Or as the planet Huston in Superman II.

Crisi-tunity!
Sony needs to hire stat the blokes who do Italian Spiderman to reboot the franchise.

Looker
The stupid thing is that much of S1m0ne was already touched upon 20 years earlier by this admittedly ham-fisted Michael Crichton flick with Albert Finney and Susan Dey.

And Lorne Greene isn't there either.

Yargh
I've said it before, I'll say it again… the floating rock-island things really give off the vibe that traveling to this alien world will be like visiting a Roger Dean album cover.

Now he can concentrate on his lawsuit against Tantus over its Guardian of Forever talking cock ring.

Another stray observation
Having Betty walk down her dream sidewalk in what is clearly looks like a '50s style process shot (walking in place in studio against an exterior projection) is a nice nod to Hitchcock and his fantasy/dream sequences. Or to that period of filmmaking in general.

The trip to Baltimore seemed to imply that if Don is going to continue his philandering, it would be on the road rather than close to home. Having a possible fling so close to his actual house, rather than even in the city, is a nice counter to this. Nothing will happen with the teacher, but by having her call the…

I am guessing that the use of Boston and "More Than a Feeling" is to 1) ground part of the story in the late '70s, when the First Earth Battalion was created (having not read the book, I'm not sure if Ronson jumps back and forth in time from his story to the FEB's inception); and 2) to provide some kind of sly…