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Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#1: Mar 29th 2014 at 3:30:08 PM

The current's bad. If Colour Coded Time Stop is in play, then why are the lower panels (which I assume are showing the time stop) in regular color? And even if the effect did work at illustrating what it wants to illustrate, then it wouldn't be a better fit in Colour Coded Time Stop? (Not saying I want that one changed, mind you).

I vote for a pull.

Current:

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#2: Mar 29th 2014 at 7:08:51 PM

Yeah, that image is bad. Pull.

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#4: Mar 29th 2014 at 9:16:02 PM

I don't think it needs a pull, but that it needs is to lose the caption. The image itself is decent (something's happening in the first panel, and a guy in the later panels spends multiple panels in a very dynamic pose.

But the Color-Coded Time Stop just obfuscates because it's clearly not a color coded time stop, and the negative of the first panel is the... flash of the powers.

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#5: Mar 29th 2014 at 9:32:40 PM

I agree we can ax the caption, because it's wrong. I'll see if I can find a better image tomorrow.

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#6: Mar 30th 2014 at 1:24:15 AM

Caption can go. Not too keen on the image either.

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#7: Mar 30th 2014 at 1:32:18 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#8: Mar 30th 2014 at 5:29:47 AM

Google image search of many of the various terms is incredibly frustrating. It's all just artsy-fartsy pictures of watches. "Time frozen" is taken rather literally with watches in ice. And the trope name is a Broadway musical, so that's no good. I thought this would be a lot easier to find.

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#9: Mar 30th 2014 at 7:14:39 AM

so, a couple of suggestions.

Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#10: Mar 30th 2014 at 7:38:00 AM

Second is better.

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#11: Mar 30th 2014 at 8:38:03 AM

I lean toward the second myself.

Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#12: Mar 31st 2014 at 6:33:51 AM

I like 9.2, but I think it'd be better if the upper panel showed the same characters as the second panel (from Reverend Lovejoy forward. Not much that can be done about Marty).

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#13: Mar 31st 2014 at 10:18:40 AM

edited 31st Mar '14 10:19:11 AM by m8e

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#14: Mar 31st 2014 at 12:56:09 PM

[up] That version is a little better than the other...is there any way to get the top panel a little cleaner?

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#15: Mar 31st 2014 at 9:37:05 PM

I tested fiddling around with the image. Can't do any better without a better source.

edited 1st Apr '14 9:33:08 AM by m8e

Paktra Since: Sep, 2013
#16: Apr 1st 2014 at 2:17:21 AM

Does anybody here have it on DVD?

I put my collection in deep storage, it would've been so useful right... about... now. [lol]

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#17: Apr 1st 2014 at 3:23:14 AM

Time Stand Still usually involves Color-Coded Time Stop soo 13 isn't that obvious that it's a time stop.

had I forgot this was a thread for TSS i'd think it's Unusually Uninteresting Sight.

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Paktra Since: Sep, 2013
#18: Apr 1st 2014 at 1:04:19 PM

[up] What about something from a sci fi show like the Time dilation Fields of Stargate SG 1, or the super speed of Smallville?

The only issue I see, is that they're all "in motion" images and it would be difficult to distinguish the frozen time from the moving actors, in a still picture.

Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#19: Apr 1st 2014 at 2:46:02 PM

[up][up] Why does it need to change color? That's its own trope. 13 looks pretty obvious to me. I vote for it.

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Paktra Since: Sep, 2013
#20: Apr 1st 2014 at 2:57:39 PM

Barring a better quality pull, [tup] 13 for now.

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