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I disagree with the service because I don't want it to become the norm. The idea of managing a two or three dozen subscriptions to different streaming services because everyone decided to hog their content to themselves behind their own individual paywalls annoys me.
I don't want the market to look like that, so I won't support it. I have no qualm with good old home video.
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Netflix, Amazon Prime, NowTV, WWE Network and Shudder, an Amazon all horror channel.
Each gives me something different, but I am considering dropping Netflix. NowTV is defo staying, because it's all the channels I'd watch if I had a full Sky Sub, but for the merest fraction of the price.
For others? It really does depend what they're offering me.
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LordofHats wrote: I disagree with the service because I don't want it to become the norm. The idea of managing a two or three dozen subscriptions to different streaming services because everyone decided to hog their content to themselves behind their own individual paywalls annoys me.
I don't want the market to look like that, so I won't support it. I have no qualm with good old home video.
That's reasonable and I actually agree. The fragmentation of streaming content is turning what used to be a 2-3 subscription affair (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime) into dozens to get the same content. It's both inevitable and regretable that its starting to resemble the cost and the mess of cable tv.
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Returning to DISCO, I say again it should have been set 50 years after Voyager. Have we gained anything from having Burnham be Spock's foster sister? Until S2 that's literally the only reason it has to be set in the past.
Kid_Kyoto wrote: Returning to DISCO, I say again it should have been set 50 years after Voyager. Have we gained anything from having Burnham be Spock's foster sister? Until S2 that's literally the only reason it has to be set in the past.
Agreed - I really enjoyed it but the "Klingons" could have been a new race and it would have been perfect
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"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Having watched through all but the last 3 episodes at this point I'd have to agree. The basic premise of Discovery, and I really hate using this metaphor because some fanfic is actually pretty good but;
"So it turns out Spock totally has a foster sister, who is human but raised by Vulcans because of tragedy that comes back to haunt her (and we'll claim in the same episode we bring this up no one has seen Klingons in a hundred years even though they apparently busy themselves massacring places in our borders) and she makes totally reasonable decisions but no one likes them so she goes to jail but she's so super good at science too she gets hired by the secret government for top secret stuff but etc. etc. etc."
I could honestly rant about the absolutely horrific premise behind Burnham's antisue character for awhile but I doubt anyone wants to hear that so I'll just stop. It really is like someone's first fanfic that they tried really hard on at the start. It's admirable, and even charming at times, but it's also kind of cringe worthy. it's only after the writers seem to have gotten a real handle on what their doing 5-6 episodes in that the story starts improving past horror movie levels of lazy characterization and plotting.
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You're not the only one who suggested that but the creators wanted to name drop it in with existing canon for the extra potential eyeballs while simultaneously throwing all that canon baggage out of the window. Things must not have gone as well as hoped for them to break the glass and slam the "only in case of emergency" Spock/Enterprise button when they promised they wouldn't less than a year before the reveal of both.
We know that Spock exists in the same timeline as Burnham, but Discovery producer Akiva Goldsman confirmed that Discovery viewers will never see Spock.
The producer did, however, address continuity concerns people have about Discovery. Goldsman said he was aware that Discovery could potentially catch up with The Original Series and, if that were to happen, the show would acknowledge The Original Series’ timeline in some fashion. Until that point, Goldsman said Discovery will exist within its own universe.
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LordofHats wrote: Having watched through all but the last 3 episodes at this point I'd have to agree. The basic premise of Discovery, and I really hate using this metaphor because some fanfic is actually pretty good but;
"So it turns out Spock totally has a foster sister, who is human but raised by Vulcans because of tragedy that comes back to haunt her (and we'll claim in the same episode we bring this up no one has seen Klingons in a hundred years even though they apparently busy themselves massacring places in our borders) and she makes totally reasonable decisions but no one likes them so she goes to jail but she's so super good at science too she gets hired by the secret government for top secret stuff but etc. etc. etc."
I could honestly rant about the absolutely horrific premise behind Burnham's antisue character for awhile but I doubt anyone wants to hear that so I'll just stop. It really is like someone's first fanfic that they tried really hard on at the start. It's admirable, and even charming at times, but it's also kind of cringe worthy. it's only after the writers seem to have gotten a real handle on what their doing 5-6 episodes in that the story starts improving past horror movie levels of lazy characterization and plotting.
Not just fanfic but Mary Sue levels of fanfic.
FYI the term Mary Sue (a 'perfect' character the author wants everyone to love) comes from a very early parody of Star Trek fanfic called a Trekers Tale.
It honestly reminds me of Star Trek: Renegades, i.e. that fan film where every actor plays a mary sue character oh and Tuvok and Chekov are here and we forgot what we were doing with the plot here's some EXPLOSIONS!
Except with higher production values and slightly better writing. Which makes me sound like I'm really ripping on the series I guess. It gets better. Everything after episode 4 steadily improves, and I feel like I'm watching something by episode 9 or so that's at least on par with Voyager. Not high praise in my book, but I'm sufficiently appeased that I'll watch a little more just to see where it goes.
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LordofHats wrote: It honestly reminds me of Star Trek: Renegades, i.e. that fan film where every actor plays a mary sue character oh and Tuvok and Chekov are here and we forgot what we were doing with the plot here's some EXPLOSIONS!
Except with higher production values and slightly better writing. Which makes me sound like I'm really ripping on the series I guess. It gets better. Everything after episode 4 steadily improves, and I feel like I'm watching something by episode 9 or so that's at least on par with Voyager. Not high praise in my book, but I'm sufficiently appeased that I'll watch a little more just to see where it goes.
Urghh no - Voyager was just bad - yeah the Dr was good and there was 7of 9 but most of the rest was drek. It had THAT boxing episode and the Dlelta flyer on shoting Borg cubes - talk about Fanfic.
Plus Voyager did not have a Mirror episode - which could have actually been fun and even their Q episode was dull.
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"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
I have a hard time seeing how Burnham is a Mary Sue when she immediately feths up monumentally and gets Georgiou killed. Poor writing is not the same as a Mary Sue.
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AlmightyWalrus wrote: I have a hard time seeing how Burnham is a Mary Sue when she immediately feths up monumentally and gets Georgiou killed. Poor writing is not the same as a Mary Sue.
My check list would be:
Extra super special origin (human raised by Vulcans)
Always right (she didn't #$%^ up, everyone else did for not listening to her)
Improbable ascension (rather than return you to jail we'll give you a job on our super secret ship)
Saves the universe or whatever
Improbable love affair (Klingon-human hybrid dude spy thing)
Cool super ship
I mean the actress is really good, and she's not quite at Wesley Crusher levels, but she's pretty much a Mary Sue.
Burnham has an overly dramatic (and horrifically overly contrived) origin story that also grants her a contrived connection to a major character (Spock/Sarek), is overly idealized in the narrative despite her flaws (granting her antisue status imo), and coasts through the plot for no explicable reason while quickly winning people over to her side for no explicable reason. The one person who doesn't like her much of the time is Saru, who is portrayed (and revealed) to do so for exceedingly petty reasons despite extolling her virtues as an officer at many turns... for no explicable reason?
Spoiler:
Even her Mirror Universe counterpart is inexplicably loved by everyone despite espousing ideals completely opposite to those of the Empire, and they love Prime Burnham just as much because... reasons?
Being a Sue isn't a hard category, but a vague collection of bad writing tropes and Burnham hits more than enough of them for me.
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I generally liked JJ Trek and I'd agree that Kirk's rapid rise to captaincy only makes sense in an emergency. That he kept it after the fact the rather jarring... and then it happens again in the second movie.
EDIT: I don't think I'm alone either in consider Star Trek V to be the worst of the TOS films by far. I'm not sure that's the standard we want to be measuring with.
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LordofHats wrote: I generally liked JJ Trek and I'd agree that Kirk's rapid rise to captaincy only makes sense in an emergency. That he kept it after the fact the rather jarring... and then it happens again in the second movie.
EDIT: I don't think I'm alone either in consider Star Trek V to be the worst of the TOS films by far. I'm not sure that's the standard we want to be measuring with.
Really? I rather enjoyed it. Actually captured the cheesiness of TOS rather well I thought.
Also: "Excuse me. What does God need with a starship?"
"I think that Deep Space Nine and Voyager got into a tricky spot where people were starting to feel like, 'I can't tell the difference between the shows', even though they were very different.
No...I'm begging you, don't say it...
"Our job is to make sure that every time you get a new Star Trek show, it feels like a very different prospect from any other Trek show that exists.
Well...nvm, there it is.
All hope is gone. We will never know what happened after the Dominion War and the Return of Voyager to Earth. Did Cardassia eventually join the Federation? Did the Romulan Empire continue to play hopscotch with the Federation on the edge of the neutral zone, or were more formal relations established in the aftermath of the conflict? After the Dominion withdraw from the Alpha Quadrant, did they also establish more peaceful relations with said quadrant? Was Odo able to teach his people all that he had learned in an effort to help bring them into the greater galaxy in a more positive light? How long did Ben spend with the Prophets? Did he return? After Janeway's return, how were relations between the Borg and the Federation? Were there further wars between the two, or did things settle down. Were there new expeditions into the Beta Quadrant? How much damage did Bashir and O'Brien actually manage to do to S31? Did the Klingon's ever relinquish any of the territory they annexed from both Cardassia and the Federation?
What, 20 years of story telling, 21 seasons across three different shows. All of it gone, forgotten and left in an age long dead.
Well, it looks like some reviews are filtering in. The good news is that all the sites owned by CBS think the second season premiere on CBS All Access is great!
Just kidding... I'm sure the reviews even on non-CBS owned sites will be stellar just like with fan favs like the Last Jedi and the latest Doctor Who season.
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Haven't watched the show so no comment on it but I have seen the redesign of the original Enterprise from the series and I like it. It seems to have taken elements from TOS, the refit Enterprise from the movies, and probably hints from the Abrams version. I may even get the Eaglemoss XL version of it.
Spoiler:
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Extra super special origin (human raised by Vulcans)
