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CBS premiered its new Star Trek series "Discovery" on Sunday. The first episode was made available on OTA (over-the-air) CBS stations — but it and all subsequent episodes are available strictly on CBS's All Access streaming service. Cost is $6/month with ads, $10/month ad-free. (NOTE: The second episode was made available immediately after episode 1 aired. Episodes 3-7 will be released weekly, there will be a break, and then the remaining episodes will again be released weekly early in 2018.)
Ars Technica has a review that mostly praised the new show. (There were at least two technical inaccuracies in the review concerning the first episode.)
For those who may not yet have seen it, I kindly ask folks who comment on this story to make liberal use of the <spoiler>don't show this unless they click here</spoiler> tags.
What did you think? Was it entertaining? Did it hold closely [enough] to existing Star Trek canon? Was any 'ideology' change you saw sufficiently warranted?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:49PM (9 children)
The leftism that we see running rampant throughout California is incompatible with originality. Leftism is all about following a predefined narrative. Originality is shunned, because it may introduce ideas that deviate from the narrative.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:41PM (2 children)
Wrong.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:47PM (1 child)
EXCELLENT reply, well stated, and you have completely changed my mind and won yourself a new compatriot. Congratulations!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:47PM
Glad to hear it! I will continue to point out your invalid views of reality in the hope that you take all such observation to heart and change your mind like you did today. I can rest easy knowing that one heart has been saved for the future!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:44PM (1 child)
Originality is shunned because it involves risk. A bold new idea involves taking risk on something untried. Unproven. Re-hashing 50 year old movies, tv shows, or comic books is "safe".
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(Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:39AM
There are only a handful of story structures that work, and so they are the framework for almost all movies and books. The details are just draped upon it. An *extremely* common structure is this:
It's is always three attempts. Two is unsatisfying, four is tedious. Once you start to watch for this structure you can't not see it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:02PM (3 children)
Hey, look up the definition of "conservative".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:12PM (2 children)
There aren't conservatives or liberals any more. Just regressives and authoritarians, or regressive-authoritarians, masquerading as the former two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:12PM (1 child)
Thanks for that crappy equivocation that tries to take hope away from everyone. Your comment is perhaps accurate regarding the politicos, but for the country as a whole it is ridiculously childish.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:23AM
FTFY