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: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:04PM (2 children)
I don't know that the networks have enough content to continue under any terms. Their library is so over-exposed and threadbare that it's hard to imagine anyone paying anything to watch any of it for the umpteenth time. Pulling it out of Netflix disconnects them from remnant nostalgia from Baby Boomers and Gen-X. Younger people don't care.
Netflix has produced some interesting original content, but under the binge culture they've created they don't create enough quickly enough. You'll binge entire seasons in a few days and then spend the rest of the year aimlessly flipping through menus and ultimately turning the screen off the way you did with channel surfing on cable. Soon they'll introduce commercial breaks to pump up their margins and everything will be back to status quo ante.
Youtube has a vastly richer universe of content, but of course they've already jumped in with commercial interruptions. The only consolation to watching them is that some of those dollars go to the people producing the content, not Hollywood mavens.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:49PM
youtube-dl and mpv to the rescue (let mpv run on --speed 1.3 for quality-of-life improvements).
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:14AM
Yes, youtube has a whopping shit-ton of content. Unfortunately it's almost all boring as shit. Unless I need to know how to change the coils on a 2001 Toyota Echo, I'm not going to watch a video on how to do it. Mostly, I just watch a funny cat video once in a while and use it as "hey, I haven't heard <song> in a long time. *click click click*".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.