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[–] 3 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

Always amazes me the lack of imagination in media like this.

3 generic CRTs - like you couldn't envision a single, wide, curved flat screen?

I suppose she's supposed to be holding oddly shaped punched cards? (Though punched cards were already dead?).

Oh, wait, those are floppies.

Are the floppies projecting data to a screen using color light bars?

Just so bizarre. I thank the creators for giving us this to look back on.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    I can answer the question of, "what is she holding?"

    It's wireless communicators.

    At that time, people really, really wanted wireless communicators like Star Trek and Dick Tracey's watch. It was the generic representation of, "the future" for all things pop art.

    Why was she holding them like that? To represent the concept of these three machines communicating with each other via her wireless control/communicators.

    "Prismatic" transfers of energy/information was actually a common trope in sci fi and computer book art all the way into the 1990s. Watch some old black and white sci-fi TV shows and you'll see beams like that everywhere.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How much budget do you think they had to do this? Someone had the wig from a costume already, they borrowed the jumpsuit from a friend, scrounged up what they could in the office, printed off a """'calendar""""", and had an intern add the rays once the photo was developed.

    Even if they had the imagination, they simply didn't have the time and resources to do anything.

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