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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9829717" data-attributes="member: 7808">But... he's not. The first step we had was puppetry and animatronics. Then we had Jar Jar. And now we have directors like Jon Favreau making Star Wars who are intentionally going back to using puppetry and animatronics for characters like Grogu specifically because of how much people disliked the bad CGI. Jar Jar wasn't a first step, he was a hard lesson learned from a misstep.The Hobbit trilogy is widely criticized for having worse CGI than LotR, not better. And a local theatre alnear me is literally reshowing the LotR trilogy next weekend.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />If the point you're trying to make is about the positive momentum of CGI in movies, I understand where you are coming from. But these are some of the worst possible examples you could pick.  How about Tron to Tron Legacy, or The Last Starfighter to Babylon 5 to Interstellar?The examples you give are good reminders that for every step forward, there are an unknown number of steps backward. There's probably a good allegory for AI in there, but I get the impression it's not the one you were trying to make.</blockquote>