watching the end of Phantom Menace on a bar TV

and from the hangar escape’s vaulted-but-not-*Warhammer* vulgar style

to the arched elven open-air but squared-off

this was absolutely the cutting edge vidya style of the next 15 years, yah, the prequels did call the style ahead of time like an anorak Devil in Prada Meryl Streep

(just got how them watching the pyre followed by the Roman triumph was supposed to invoke the RotJ Ewok party AND the A New Hope Reifenstahl medal ceremony;; it didn’t but maybe that sour Yoda look was to say It Didn’t)