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on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:41PM
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
Cut and pasted shamelessly from StarTrek.com:
"CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017."
"The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966."
"The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:58PM
To each his own. I loved both, but if I watched them for the first time now, I probably wouldn't be as into them for many reasons. Some reasons might have to do with being older, and a lot more jaded.
Fact that it is hyped would probably lead me to look at it under microscope while blowing every negative out of proportion. And I would be comparing any positive to something similar but done better in another show... which is pretty crappy because I'm sure out of hundreds of shows or movies you can find one that did X better than the thing you are watching.
But at the time when I watched it, the world was a much different place, and I was a different person. Due to this both have become shows that I cherish and re-watch often to try to go back in time and try to get that feeling again, often unsuccessfully.
I am keenly aware that huge swathes of the shows were filler, and there was plenty of dues ex machina style cop-outs, especially by JMS where he would write himself into a corner and then try to act like he is clever. Other problems were simply life, like the fact that the main actor on B5 developed psychosis and could no longer continue with the show in first season because he was seeing shit, which only complicates a story and makes it hard to fix later on. But I still feel that overall both shows were excellent pieces of Sci-fi and storytelling. And they are precious to me :)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:25PM
Fact that it is hyped would probably lead me to look at it under microscope while blowing every negative out of proportion.
Yes I could see that point of view. If someone told me it was SG:U but the ship doesn't move, I'd be somewhat impressed with B5 in comparison. Or if it was compared to Andromeda. I suppose if someone claimed Knight Rider was sci fi because, after all, "talking car", then B5 would be pretty good in comparison. But its always claimed by its fans to be the best sci fi on TV and so forth. I'm not seeing it the same way.
I also appreciate the time and place thing. In 1990 competing with the national badminton championship and reruns of Laverne and Shirley I suspect it kicked (relative) butt. But when anything ever made can be downloaded and/or streamed, or so it seems, the competition is going to be brutal.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:05PM
Or if it was compared to Andromeda.
Oh my god somebody else has heard of it! :)
Damn shame they sacked Robert Hewitt Wolfe. He published a script of what the original ending of the show was supposed to be and it was way better than the incomprehensible fifth season.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:38PM
A lot of this is 'age' dependent (the jaded thing) as well as personal interest... watch the first 4 episodes of the first Doctor (William Hartnell's Doctor Who): my daughter and wife think this kind of thing is unwatchable where as i thing "Unearthly Child" (and on) is amazing to watch. It is not only the 'birth' of the Doctor, but so telling when comparing to future Doctors.
eg. Compare Tennants "I never would" Doctor to Hartnells "Yes I damn well would bash this cave mans head with this rock". The evolution, the flow (and putting aside that it was pirates that saved so many episodes That had been wiped/lost for future watchers.
Doctor Who is a treasure, Tom Baker is my Doctor, Hartnell is the greatest Doctor (he was pre-'the Doctor has to be a role model' and could be as big a bastard as he wanted to be).....
...and some people CANNOT watch it: it is dreck to them... bleeech!
I enjoyed B5, once i got past the 'weird' hair and costumes (again, like the Doctor, a lot came to budget) and once i got past Bruce Boxleitner SMILING CONSTANTLY AS IF HIS TEETH WERE THE FECKING MONEY MAKERS AND NO MATTER HOW MANY PLANETS WERE GOING TO BLOW UP I'LL JUST KEEP ON FECKING SMILING!!!
A lot of people love Blakes 7, but for me it kind of fell apart when BLAKE was no longer in the show and it became Avon's show.
To each his own.
Keep calm and RUN!
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:09PM
...and some people CANNOT watch it: it is dreck to them... bleeech!
Well, it was filmed in 1966. The quality of the picture, sets, etc. is shit.
once i got past Bruce Boxleitner SMILING CONSTANTLY
Heh. What, you mean it wasn't obvious he had multiple personality disorder? Happy Bruce who can't stop smiling and Angry Bruce who's contractually obligated to appear each episode and angrily lecture you about something with poor reasoning.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"