50 Years of Star Trek - RIP
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
37 minutes of the Picard pilot was more than enough for me. 3rd rate garbage that you'd expect from the SyFy Channel. Nothing interesting in the slightest. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Nah, this was good. More character based, slower paced, Picard was still Picard.
All I want is a continuation of the old series with a modern touch. This is that, so far. Like with The Mandalorian there seems to be a step away from woke crap and just telling sci fi stories.
Doesn’t all have to be Hamlet.
Much better than Discovery, feels like Star Trek, good acting, nice nods to the past with the CGI and sound. And Tim, seriously some of TNG episodes were terrible, some were great. What I mean is this just has to be consistent with that source material, not be the best thing ever made.
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
37 minutes of the Picard pilot was more than enough for me. 3rd rate garbage that you'd expect from the SyFy Channel. Nothing interesting in the slightest. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I liked it. I’ll watch the next episode for sure. The last half was better than the first once the exposition was out of the way.
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@Tim yeah, just watched it and they have fair criticisms. Particularly about the loss of an optimistic vision of the future. That’s reflective of the poor level of discourse in US politics, and the left leaning need from the writers to paint people that disagree with them as evil.
It’s amusing that the hokey original trek handled those themes more subtly than today.
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
@Kirwan To me it's another show that rips off BSG a lot, and we are more than 19 years removed from 9/11 ...
Yeah, I must admit I raised my eyebrows at the human looking synths. But that idea has been going around for decades (even before Bladerunner), and Data's mum was one in TNG and Mudd's sexbots TOS, so it's fair to say it's a common sci-fi trope.
It's an improvement on Discovery, and I'm setting my bar low so I can enjoy it. It's a treat to see LCARS and those sounds again. Yes, yes Nostalgia TM.
The main thing that I took from the Red Letter video is where has the science gone? It used to be an aspirational show and was responsible for people taking up careers in those fields. Not sure what career you would take up from modern Trek, UFC?
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Thought the second episode was a lot better. Still a bit slow (they should be in space by now), and the editing is pretty shit (cutting back and forth between short scenes of different groups of characters kills momentum). The antagonists' motivations could turn out to be pretty lame.
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@Tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek - RIP:
Thought the second episode was a lot better. Still a bit slow (they should be in space by now), and the editing is pretty shit (cutting back and forth between short scenes of different groups of characters kills momentum). The antagonists' motivations could turn out to be pretty lame.
Was a lot of talking instead of doing, and it’s getting a bit silly making every other main character bar one a woman.
I think their structure would work better for a binge watch than weekly episodes. Be like a long movie then and you can forgive exposition episodes.
I ruined it last night by watching the directors cut of The Motion Picture. I always like the original, even though they didn’t have time to edit it properly. I really enjoyed the tidied up version too.
Really stark how different Star Trek has become. Far less intelligent, or thoughtful.