I'm not sure that the submitter's example is really a case of "too much" as in "so much that it's hurting you."
It is very interesting perspective shift on the world around you, but my guess is that the same thing happens for anyone who is intensely involved in certain acitivity/career. I've known people involved in politics and academia, who tend to interpret a lot of daily-life events through the lense of their profession (e.g. getting a traffic ticket as an example of police oppression).
As for the original topic, I once jumped at a beeping sound I heard on the street that sounded remarkably like the auto-sentry gun in Team Fortress Classic. And currently whenever I see a building under construction I examine it from the perspective of the house building program in Sims 2.
The latter example I actually see as being useful since it's increased my understanding of how houses are built. The former sentry-gun one is just silly, but I got a good laugh out of it.:>)
I was also unimpressed with the human Cylons, especially since they look to be the dominant form of Cylon that we'll be seeing in the series.
And why bother CG'ing them at all? Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing the clunky old versions, even if they do look cheesy. It wouldn't be hard to update them a bit, and then they wouldn't look any worse than the stormtroopers in Star Wars.
With the large number of scifi series out there competing for a relatively small market share, BG must have and should have been banking on nostalgia to pull people in. By removing the nostalgia with this and so many other changes, I think they're consigning themselves to the status of 'just another scifi show on some cable channel.'
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I'm not sure that the submitter's example is really a case of "too much" as in "so much that it's hurting you."
:>)
It is very interesting perspective shift on the world around you, but my guess is that the same thing happens for anyone who is intensely involved in certain acitivity/career. I've known people involved in politics and academia, who tend to interpret a lot of daily-life events through the lense of their profession (e.g. getting a traffic ticket as an example of police oppression).
As for the original topic, I once jumped at a beeping sound I heard on the street that sounded remarkably like the auto-sentry gun in Team Fortress Classic. And currently whenever I see a building under construction I examine it from the perspective of the house building program in Sims 2.
The latter example I actually see as being useful since it's increased my understanding of how houses are built. The former sentry-gun one is just silly, but I got a good laugh out of it.
I was also unimpressed with the human Cylons, especially since they look to be the dominant form of Cylon that we'll be seeing in the series. And why bother CG'ing them at all? Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing the clunky old versions, even if they do look cheesy. It wouldn't be hard to update them a bit, and then they wouldn't look any worse than the stormtroopers in Star Wars. With the large number of scifi series out there competing for a relatively small market share, BG must have and should have been banking on nostalgia to pull people in. By removing the nostalgia with this and so many other changes, I think they're consigning themselves to the status of 'just another scifi show on some cable channel.'