Because you've got it wrong.

Square Pegs? Not sci fi or fantasy, but geeky.

that's too bad.

how 'bout the princess bride sword fight - that was a pretty elaborate fight

who let the bow and arrow weenie in here?

a little Preparation H ought to fix that right up

don't forget that Cassini dropped a probe down to Titan that returned an image from the surface.

not "living in a computer simulation", its you are a computer simulation.

At 0.13 I see the horseshoe alien craft aloft, and shortly after that somebody tossing the crew around..?

Huh. I'm convinced. I could see us setting out to build this now. While the elevator we're still groping for the magic material.

yeah well, they were not even in the first book, never mind scheming to take over the world. You'd have to ask ERB why so similar, although Tharn is a lot more like Thark than Thern...

Well I understand costuming them, and I even understand wanting to alter the gender role differences. But they are telling a different story here, using the same characters to tell a different story. In terms of back story John Carter is a different character as well - only has the same name.

in the Second book - Gods of Mars - there is a race of White Martians called the Therns - not sure if you got the name wrong or if they altered the name. But in the book, the Therns were indeed bald, and wore blonde wigs. But they pretty much kept to themselves but for enslaving or murdering any other Martians that…

sounds like a classic case of the studio not having faith in the source material, or in the case of Disney, altering the source material to maximize franchise and merchandise opportunities.

yeah, the head in that sketch borrows heavily from real steel

Aliens can haz repubicans, plz

I thought of that scene when I read this.

why do you think its the "throne" room - similarly rounded, but no throne, no big scope - why would not the navigation station be separate from the pilot station

yes plz

its a good start, but the pre bent legs are not contributing to the stride. The cheetah will have full extension of the legs during their stride and there will be significant push off the legs at the extend. The spine also pumps up and down adding thrust to the push off on the back legs. There is some of that here,…