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01-11-2018, 08:53 PM | #391 |
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Kind of cool to see who provided the gamer's voice at the end of the episode considering who played the lead character. Nice nod to Charlie X, too. Last edited by Mennonite; 01-11-2018 at 09:25 PM.. |
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01-18-2018, 09:50 PM | #392 |
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I hate to say it, but goddamn, I love this show. Yeah, I feel dirty saying that, but it's true. I've gotten over the goofy Klingons and the shitting all over the canon bit. It's dark and twisted and bleak and nasty and I'm digging it.
They basically did the same thing to Star Trek that the reboot of Battlestar Galactica did - took an old show, blasted it down to outline form, and filled in the details using new and shiny stuff. I know that the stuff they're doing will never fit in with established canon, and I'm sure they do to. Yes, the ships and everything in them should look like the Enterprise from the original pilot with Jeffrey Hunter. But that look is 50 years old, and would bore the crap out of modern audiences. It's either this way or no way, and I'm on board with it. I think their biggest mistake was not simply calling it a reboot, when it clearly is. |
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01-19-2018, 12:35 AM | #393 | |
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What I said in the tag would be a decent in-narrative explanation for the differences between the Klingons of ENT/TOS to VOY and DISC as well as the aesthetic differences among the TV shows. |
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01-20-2018, 12:52 PM | #394 |
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01-20-2018, 12:59 PM | #395 | |
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I had a suspicion that Enterprise was gonna be garbage but I watched it anyway because it was Trek. It was, mostly, garbage. I have a sneaking suspicion that this version of Star Trek starring Lucious Malfoy and Spock's black sister was gonna be garbage. Sticking to my guns this time. Not watching this at all. |
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01-20-2018, 01:03 PM | #396 | |
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The pilot was a misstep but the show has gradually improved episode to episode. |
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01-21-2018, 08:40 PM | #397 | |
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I'm not going to argue with you about the overall quality of either of these shows - they were seriously flawed - but they both produced some good episodes. Between the two shows I found about 100 episodes that I thought were worthwhile. That's the great thing about episodic tv - if an episode sucks you can safely ignore it. Usually. I'll get around to watching this new show eventually, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Right now I'm reading a bunch of the DS9 Relaunch novels. They're pretty good. |
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01-21-2018, 10:56 PM | #398 |
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01-22-2018, 08:39 AM | #399 |
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I still have to chuckle at the giant tardigrade torture propulsion system though...
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01-22-2018, 10:43 AM | #400 |
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01-22-2018, 11:31 AM | #401 |
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01-22-2018, 05:12 PM | #402 |
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The new episodes after the break are so much better than the first 10. The last episode was really really well done and the After Trek show actually showed all the build-up to that reveal. Really good stuff. |
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01-23-2018, 12:34 AM | #404 |
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The pilot and most of the early episodes were atrocious. I actually got into the last three episodes enough to remember the character names.
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01-23-2018, 05:54 AM | #405 | |
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But what's done is done. FWIW this show has found it's footing much quicker than Next Generation did. With a handful of exceptions, NG didn't really get good until the third season. |
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