'They've gone to plaid!'
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Ashaod43 — 10 years ago(August 16, 2015 07:58 AM)
You knuckleheads. I always took this as a sight gag, not a speed thing. In every film that has time travel there is always a great visual when someone goes into hyperspace or light speed. Star trek has lines and lights when they go to warp and such.
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Dante8 — 10 years ago(August 16, 2015 02:57 PM)
I always thought it was a reference to the freaky light-sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Apparently, according to wikipedia, that's known as "the Stargate Sequence", but all I remember is a long period of bizarre colored lights and patterns, courtesy of Kubrick).
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cody-87787 — 10 years ago(December 18, 2015 09:50 AM)
in many scifi movies, when a ship is moving at lightspeed (or warp in star trek), there's a striped pattern behind them. and in several star trek movies, this striped pattern is even rainbow colored. going plaid is just going so much faster that your stripes turn plaid instead.
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tyson6633 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 04:28 PM)
I've always assumed that the stars with the black background was like polka-dot or something. Meaning, in a fashion sense, Lone Starr had "gone to polka-dot" while the spaceballs had "gone to plaid".
That's my take on it, anyway. I don't know
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