The bad part is, if/when they start becoming commonplace, there's going to be a lot of shows that don't need to be in 3-D that will be. Imagine, the "I want to be a human taco with you 2" episode of Maury in lurid 3-D, just pulling you into the gigantic flour tortilla with the disgusting fat chick. Kill the future.

3-D invariably makes me nauseous, no matter how kindly rendered. I don't watch a lot of television, but it's on enough to warrant me taking a gander now and then, and puking my guts up isn't exactly something I look forward to doing. You know that video games are going to take the next step too, and the idea of them being rendered the same just kills me. The only things I can really handle are the VR helmet units, so until we get there (which is actually something I'm looking forward to) I'm pensive, at best, about the situation. I really hate throwing up, and Avatar made me so sick I only made it a quarter of the way through.

Captain_Pollution wrote:

Eh, I'm sure 3D's just a passing fad. Y'know, like it was the last couple times. Also, fuck 3D! It's not albino-compatible.

See, I'm not convinced of the veracity of the first part of that statement. True, it's enjoyed a resurgence and then downfall two or three times in the last fourty-fifty years, but it's getting to the point where it's getting ubiquitous. If anything else, it's going to be a much more long-lasting fad this time than it had been. It's not like James Cameron is going to shoot Avatar 2 or 3 in regular 2-D effects after the insane amount of money it made. There might be an accumulation of 3-D movies so large that it creates a backlash, but I think that's going to end up being years in the future, if at all.