Polynesian Dweller
10-25-2008, 10:05 PM
Finally got to ride SSE and half to say it was OK. Not great, but OK. The refurbished ascent really is quite an improvement and makes the story of improving communications over the centuries a more coherent story.
If that improvment had been shown all the way through then the ride could be great but there were a few less than perfect moments. First, Judi Dench was OK but some of the dialog she had to read was just irritating. Trying to call the Roman roads 'the first world wide web' and the Arab and Jewish scholars saving some early knowledge 'the first backup system' were frankly silly comments that really felt like too much of a stretch and trying too hard.
But the real problem, is at the top when you see the earth. This should be a climax moment, it should bring the whole story together in a uplifting final moment. But it doesn't. It just dosen't fit and you keep waiting for the climax. Every good movie or story has a climax and then finishes with an epilogue. The climax here is clearly supposed to be now that we've been shown what came before that has created the communications we enjoy today and we should have been shown that (how about communications satellites circling the earth and people communicating via phone, internet, TV etc. Then we would have had that moment that finished the story we had just been through. But that doesn't happen.
The epilogue here is supposed to be the little cartoon sequence coming down. But without the climax moment, you play with the screen feeling like something is missing, you should have the story finished. But that cartoon isn't designed to do that, its supposed to take beyond the now into what comes after your story, that's an epilogue.
Ok, that's a long winded way of saying, that the problem isn't with the ending of the ride, its actually right at the top. The story never got finished.
But its still worth doing especially for all the well done changes at the beginning.
If that improvment had been shown all the way through then the ride could be great but there were a few less than perfect moments. First, Judi Dench was OK but some of the dialog she had to read was just irritating. Trying to call the Roman roads 'the first world wide web' and the Arab and Jewish scholars saving some early knowledge 'the first backup system' were frankly silly comments that really felt like too much of a stretch and trying too hard.
But the real problem, is at the top when you see the earth. This should be a climax moment, it should bring the whole story together in a uplifting final moment. But it doesn't. It just dosen't fit and you keep waiting for the climax. Every good movie or story has a climax and then finishes with an epilogue. The climax here is clearly supposed to be now that we've been shown what came before that has created the communications we enjoy today and we should have been shown that (how about communications satellites circling the earth and people communicating via phone, internet, TV etc. Then we would have had that moment that finished the story we had just been through. But that doesn't happen.
The epilogue here is supposed to be the little cartoon sequence coming down. But without the climax moment, you play with the screen feeling like something is missing, you should have the story finished. But that cartoon isn't designed to do that, its supposed to take beyond the now into what comes after your story, that's an epilogue.
Ok, that's a long winded way of saying, that the problem isn't with the ending of the ride, its actually right at the top. The story never got finished.
But its still worth doing especially for all the well done changes at the beginning.