I think Disco didn't come on until prime time though, almost treated it like a normal show, Picard is dropping tomorrow morning where a majority of people will be off to work
Same thing happened with Mando on D+ and if you didn't want to read spoilers then you didn't enter the thread until after you watched the episode. It's like insisting Brits spoiler tag Doctor Who for a day because Yanks haven't watched it yet. That's just dumb.I think Disco didn't come on until prime time though, almost treated it like a normal show, Picard is dropping tomorrow morning where a majority of people will be off to work
Same thing happened with Mando on D+ and if you didn't want to read spoilers then you didn't enter the thread until after you watched the episode. It's like insisting Brits spoiler tag Doctor Who for a day because Yanks haven't watched it yet. That's just dumb.
That... does not look better. It looks like they reduced the effects, which in turn made the age bags under his eyes more pronounced.
This is the worst thing. Not only do they hate it but they compulsively watch it and then come shit all over the thread. I don't understand why people watch things they don't like. I guess their time isn't that valuable to them?
How can a person make a full and accurate assessment of a TV programme (or a movie) if that person hasn't watched it? Besides, some shows take a while to get going and have bumpy starts but end up improving markedly.
No, those are called filler. lolI never get the complaints about shows (any show, not just Picard or Discovery) "not having time to breathe." Particularly when you go into a show knowing 1) the show is serialized, 2) modern shows (non-sitcom US shows anyway) have seasons with less than half as many episodes as when TNG was on the air.
You take one of those episodes to have a slow contemplative all character development piece and suddenly the same people are complaining about a show "wasting" an episode.
Okay, that's about what I figured. I'm a night owl anyway so I'll be up.
I never get the complaints about shows (any show, not just Picard or Discovery) "not having time to breathe." Particularly when you go into a show knowing 1) the show is serialized, 2) modern shows (non-sitcom US shows anyway) have seasons with less than half as many episodes as when TNG was on the air.
You take one of those episodes to have a slow contemplative all character development piece and suddenly the same people are complaining about a show "wasting" an episode.
Spoiler Policy
Although the voting skewed more towards a 24 hour spoiler policy, more people commenting in the thread were vocal towards following the precedent from other shows where spoilers are allowed as soon as the episode drops, so I think we'll go with that. If it becomes a problem in the future we can revisit.
lol, sureSpoiler Policy
Although the voting skewed more towards a 24 hour spoiler policy, more people commenting in the thread were vocal towards following the precedent from other shows where spoilers are allowed as soon as the episode drops, so I think we'll go with that. If it becomes a problem in the future we can revisit.
Alt right? People are excited about Picard because they like TNG - Discovery is not that and Picard is looking, from what we know through trailers, info and leaks, to be a lot like discoveryLol "generic" is such a meaningless buzzword it just mean stuff I don't like at this point
🤡 you should really stop regurgitating alt right conspiracy YouTuber material it's all bs
Thats from Lord of the Rings right
Maintaining a visual look for the universe = Discovery is what you're trying to say, but doing so rather sloppily. This isn't a show which needs to have story of the week episodes to sell into syndication. They're telling a story that Pat wants to tell himself. Picard will be for our time what The Undiscoveree Country was to the Cold War.Alt right? People are excited about Picard because they like TNG - Discovery is not that and Picard is looking, from what we know through trailers, info and leaks, to be a lot like discovery
Man i hope i'm wrong but i have no idea why people keep trotting out alt right whenever they just have a normal disagreement with someone
Maintaining a visual look for the universe = Discovery is what you're trying to say, but doing so rather sloppily. This isn't a show which needs to have story of the week episodes to sell into syndication. They're telling a story that Pat wants to tell himself. Picard will be for our time what The Undiscoveree Country was to the Cold War.
if Trek in the 90s had this kind of budget and VFX then what you're seeing on screen wouldn't be a problem but instead you're yearning for carpeted bridges, shoulder pads and awful effects.
So it's midnight release everywhere else on Amazon on 24th?
Sucks that we have to wait so long after it airs.
I don't even see the point of it...not like we get CBS outside of America. So it's not like watching on Amazon would take away from CBS.
I see.I guess amazon didn't want to budge on their Friday release day for originals?
Also theres a TNG marathon going on at BBC America right now
because the argument that the producers is somehow ''misleading'' people is straight out of the alt right youtubers booki have no idea why people keep trotting out alt right whenever they just have a normal disagreement with someone
Lol - i liked Enterprise . I am not precious at all about the tng-ds9-voy aesthetic. I do want intelligent scifi and I don't really care what stories Patrick Stewart wants to tell. He's an actor and not a writer and his influence over the movies was almost always to the negative.
I do miss less serialized storytelling from these kinds of shows but that will come back around at some point
From what I've read of the honest critiques, it seems like the the feeling of it being generic or uninspired comes from a look and feel that's used in a lot of sci-fi properties. The low lighting, surfaces dominated by blues and grays, and in the case of Picard, orange-ish holographic displays. There's a feeling that you've seen this all before and nothing really seems to stick out.Also the sooner you get used to the idea that you have to update some things with time, the better. You aren't going to get a show that has things looking like they did in 80s/90s. Discovery is set in TOS era but it did go through a soft reboot tech wise and that was only natural. And even then they did a bang up job with NCC 1701 in Discovery. It's basically as close to TOS as you can get in 21st century look wise, without it feeling campy.
I mean we are two seasons in and people still hate watch it, I usually give shows about 3 episodes before I move on
Imo JJ Trek is actually even more different looking and it has far absurd elements like the Vengence, beaming to Kronos, snowglobe Yorktown etc (which wasn't really JJ but still). The ship itself is like far bigger than any Eterprise on TV, including Picard's Enterprise C and D. It had the blue and grey surfaces in abundance too. Infact JJ Trek is like the most blue and grey surfaced Star Trek out there. I think Discovery's version of OG Enterprise was far closer to TOS than 09, right down to the whistle alert, orange doors etc. Basically it showed you that Discovery itself was a one off and unique ship with its own style and tech far advanced than anything else out there.From what I've read of the honest critiques, it seems like the the feeling of it being generic or uninspired comes from a look and feel that's used in a lot of sci-fi properties. The low lighting, surfaces dominated by blues and grays, and in the case of Picard, orange-ish holographic displays. There's a feeling that you've seen this all before and nothing really seems to stick out.
Contrast it with Trek '09, which retains familiar visual elements, but updates everything with a look and feel that didn't seem to obviously crib from any other contemporaneous sci-fi stuff. It's bright (lens flares lol), colorful, and dominated by whites contrasted with gloss blacks & primary colors. The engine room looks like a brewery but 🤷🏻♂️. At least it has its own distinct feel, which you can't really say with current TV Trek.
I can roll with whatever, but my main criticism is I just wish they'd crank the lights up a bit.
I've always wondered where that idea came from, I assumed it was made up by angry fans. I don't think I've ever seen an actual source.From what I understand it was also contractually obligated to look distinctively different from TV, due to the CBS Paramount split leading to each only having the rights to TV and movie separately, despite CBS owning the umbrella Star Trek licence. But that could've been wrong info.
Only if Miles comes back and suffers in some way.
Borg survivors gotta stick together, gotta get Janeway in on this.Really curious to see this. It's still kinda wild to me that we're even getting this, both to see beloved old characters again and to finally have a show post-Nemesis. Especially the former, seeing them use Hugh and Seven is so cool to see.
This is disappointing if true. SVOD shows should take advantage of their platform and be 50-60+ mins. Especially if they're 8-10 episode seasons.I believe I read that the first episode is like 40ish minutes, from the premier
This is disappointing if true. SVOD shows should take advantage of their platform and be 50-60+ mins. Especially if they're 8-10 episode seasons.
The same length as a traditional network broadcast just makes little sense to me.