I'm looking at Fellowship, and I'll tell you what: not for the first time, I find myself thinking, "They can carve a whole city out of the inside of a mountain, and the dwarves can't come up with a banister?"
M and I have noticed a general lack of handrails in sf/f. When watching movies, we often raise an eyebrow and say "OSHA point!" for each instance of handrail/guardrail/banister-free platforms/stairs/etc. If we made it a drinking game I suspect we'd both need liver transplants.
What is up with the no-banisters thing anyway? The Star Trek reboot was particularly devoid, as I recall.
I don't remember a lot of staircases in the reboot, so I'll take your word for it - except that I do remember a bit at the beginning where the commentary points out the handrails on the Kelvin. Along an ordinary walkway, though; they were for holding onto in case of turbulence or, I guess, venting into vacuum.
Oh, the Vulcan school-chamber pit thingies, with no railings... the Romulan mining ship with endless multilayered apparently cantilevered platforms, no railings... it started to seem kind of weird to me after a while.
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What is up with the no-banisters thing anyway? The Star Trek reboot was particularly devoid, as I recall.
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