Enzo wrote:Voyager, Oh OK, I can watch it. I do get a little tired of Mulgrew whispering her lines. KATE: you can be dramatic without whispering. (Russell Crowe - listen up)
Arneb wrote:Boy did I have to google "to jump the shark", being a durdy furriner and all that.
Arneb wrote:I suspect that there are only so many sensible, entertaining stories that you can tell in any one TV Universe.
Arneb wrote:Just yesterday I read they'll start a new Star Wars trilogy. Different time, different cast, same Universe. I wonder what variant on "poor by discovers he is really something special and saves the world doing so" they'll pull out.
Arneb wrote:Boy did I have to google "to jump the shark", being a durdy furriner and all that.
Lianachan wrote:Arneb wrote:I suspect that there are only so many sensible, entertaining stories that you can tell in any one TV Universe.
It's not that so much as it's a couple of other things. The technology looks far more advanced than the series that are set after it - inevitable, given that sci-fi generally shows us stuff that's just beyond our own current technology and TOS was made 60 or so years ago - but this is a mess of see through wall/windows, swish-abouty holographic displays and the like. The entire premise of the show is built on utter scientific nonsense. A warp drive, as per the rest of Star Trek, is a conceivable development that doesn't need too much of a leap of faith to accept, but the drive in this new series..... Nope. It's jarringly awful and rips you out of the moment - and it suggests nobody who knows anything about science was involved in the show. And it seems to have completely vanished by the time of the other series. Plus the acting and sets are awful, the effects look like a video game and the morality of the main characters is highly dubious. I've heard the dreaded F word, too, which doesn't really sit well in Star Trek.
Lianachan wrote:Arneb wrote:Just yesterday I read they'll start a new Star Wars trilogy. Different time, different cast, same Universe. I wonder what variant on "poor by discovers he is really something special and saves the world doing so" they'll pull out.
Heard that too. I'll decide how excited I am about that after the next couple of Star Wars films. So far so good, for me.
Lianachan wrote:Has anybody seen the new series? I'm about 5 episodes in and it's already jumped the shark for me.
Lianachan wrote:It's not that so much as it's a couple of other things. The technology looks far more advanced than the series that are set after it - inevitable, given that sci-fi generally shows us stuff that's just beyond our own current technology and TOS was made 60 or so years ago - but this is a mess of see through wall/windows, swish-abouty holographic displays and the like. The entire premise of the show is built on utter scientific nonsense. A warp drive, as per the rest of Star Trek, is a conceivable development that doesn't need too much of a leap of faith to accept, but the drive in this new series..... Nope. It's jarringly awful and rips you out of the moment - and it suggests nobody who knows anything about science was involved in the show. And it seems to have completely vanished by the time of the other series. Plus the acting and sets are awful, the effects look like a video game and the morality of the main characters is highly dubious. I've heard the dreaded F word, too, which doesn't really sit well in Star Trek.
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