[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
spoilers if you haven't read the book...
> First of all, let me say that the level of special effects for a
> cable-produced mini-series was very impressive. But I'll bet that
> the cost of animating articulated flying machines was too much, just
> to be faithful to the book. I don't think that the idea of flapping
> flying machines was that essential to the story. Cool, but not
> essential.
Personally I always thought the idea of ornithopters was a
little unrealistic, unless it's a really low grav planet...