Cephus
Master Member
Not when you have other, better series to watch instead.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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asalaw
Master Member
HAH! just realized my M’Benga plot totally riffs on the Ripley/Newt plot in Aliens. But hey, if you’re gonna rip off Aliens and have a Newt character, why not rip off the good parts, instead of just doing the crap they did? If you’re gonna steal, steal from the best. Ima go write Macbeth in Space now.
Iskelderon
Sr Member
Yes, but instead of drowning her because the new script was **** they had her pull a Wesley Crusher and she ascended to a different state of being.
“Get away from her, you female Gorn in heat!”
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I’m on season 3 of Sliders right now.
asalaw
Master Member
I just finished No Way Home. I totally see how it made $1.9B worldwide. Amazing how so many characters can be so well managed without turning into an unfocused mess. I’m sure it helped they were all established in other movies, but there are still about a billion ways this could have gone sideways. If you had pitched me the concept, I would’ve thrown you out of my office—hell, out the window. Yet they pulled it off.
And Strange New Hair can’t seem to manage a handful of potentially great characters in a well-established universe without leaving most of them completely undeveloped after nine hours. Pathetic.
I could gush about NWH for hours—there’s so much it gets right—but I don’t want to trip the OT alarms…
In other news, Nexstar has reached a deal to “buy” 70% of the CW network for $0 and assumption of $100M in CW debt, so it looks like potentially the only decent writer left in TV, JMS, will be without a home for the B5 reboot. Maybe Strange New hair will take him. God knows they could use the skilled labor.
And Strange New Hair can’t seem to manage a handful of potentially great characters in a well-established universe without leaving most of them completely undeveloped after nine hours. Pathetic.
I could gush about NWH for hours—there’s so much it gets right—but I don’t want to trip the OT alarms…
In other news, Nexstar has reached a deal to “buy” 70% of the CW network for $0 and assumption of $100M in CW debt, so it looks like potentially the only decent writer left in TV, JMS, will be without a home for the B5 reboot. Maybe Strange New hair will take him. God knows they could use the skilled labor.
Gorn on the Cobb springs to mind..
Tell it to The Greeks..
They must be Spinning in their Graves, then again they prolly stole those same stories from another older culture.
Iskelderon
Sr Member
Apparently the writer's explanation for the new depiction of the Gorn is "I couldn't be bothered to think about the context, so I just pulled something out of my ass":
ProfKSergeev
Sr Member
Wow. So "willful ignorance" is his excuse. The hacks have fully taken over.
They already did: it's called Macross.
I'm still upset though that they killed off Hemmer so quickly.
I mean seriously, while he was a bit haughty and full of himself, he at least made things a bit interesting!
asalaw
Master Member
Ah, but did they say “Out, out, damn sunspots!”They already did: it's called Macross.
I'm still upset though that they killed off Hemmer so quickly.
I hated Hummer. Well, in fairness, I hate almost all of them. But Hummer was particularly tedious, and all of his dialog was just on-the-nose dreck. If these writers had the first clue how to write subtext, he could have been much more mysterious and interesting.
I’m going to park this video here, just to because I know it’s going to kick up some dust in this thread…
Yeah, I’m a real jerk and a troll, sometimes.
Yeah, I’m a real jerk and a troll, sometimes.
Cephus
Master Member
At least he was something original. Considering how much this show rips off everything, badly, at least Hemmer was a breath of fresh air among the stench.They already did: it's called Macross.
I'm still upset though that they killed off Hemmer so quickly.
Cephus
Master Member
Steve Shives is now and has always been an *******.
asalaw
Master Member
Never heard of him. But he seems to be one of those people who resent any criticism of things they love, even when it’s utter crap, and lash out in a rage at the critics. We’ve seen it right here in this thread. The amusing part is the supercilious tone—as if he’s convinced he’s an anointed genius, and everyone who criticizes Strange New Hair is an idiot.
And of course, there’s the predictable “you’ll take whatever crap we give you, and you’ll like it” haughtiness we often get from studios and their shills. Marie Antoinette never really said “Let them eat cake,“ but the studios say it every day.
I remember Roberto Orci once losing it—on Twitter, I think—when fans were criticizing one of his reboot movies. He basically said that there’s a reason he’s paid the big bucks to write those things, and we, the great unwashed, are not.
My response to that sort of nonsense is that rising to the top of a system that rewards mediocrity is nothing to brag about.
Picard102
Sr Member
Sitting at the bottom having done nothing isn't either.
