American and UK fans waiting for William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge have only a few weeks left to wait. The Next Generation documentary will be arriving on multiple digital platforms beginning August 1 in the US and August 3 in the UK. It is already available in the US via Vimeo. “Writer, Director […] More...
I highly recommend it, if you enjoy behind the scenes style documentaries. The content is similar to the DVD/Bluray special features, but on steroids. The graphics and animations are worth the price of admission alone. There are pretty in-depth interviews with players that rarely or never to Trek interviews. There wasn't a ton of new content, but it went more in depth than has been done previously and there are lots of great anecdotes. It'll be a great addition to the collection of behind the scenes Trek videos.
I just saw an article about this on IO9. http://io9.com/a-new-documentary-sh...utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow Has anyone watched this yet?
I watched it. it's pretty good, albeit it wastes some air with people like Braga, who weren't actually there or really involved at the time. I think they should have interviewed more of the other people not directly involved with the writing to get a sense of how this chaos affected different parts of the production. I also wanted more Fontana than we got, but maybe what was in there was all she really wanted to say on the matter.
Yup. It's a title. That's what they do. Honestly, it has me intrigued and I'm not a big TNG guy. Much moreso than were it called "Disagreements in the Writers' Room." Even though I'm ok with this hyperbolic title, it's a reminder of our culture's drenching us in BS so that it is the common coin. I (a teacher) always use the example of a teacher calling an "A-" 10th grade essay "awesome." Nope. "Nicely done"? Sure "Good progress"? Yup, but worthy of "awe"? Nope. But so it goes.
Sadly I missed this the first time around when it aired in Canada. I welcome a chance to finally see it.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. If you're already familiar with the BTS of the early days of TNG there's not a lot revealed, but the back and forth between the studio execs and Roddenberry/Leonard Maizlish is pretty interesting. The closing credit song, "Whacky Doodle" (based on Maurice hurley's description of Rodenberry's beliefs/dictates about the future) is pretty outstanding. Solid presentation.
Maybe I'm turning into a cranky old man, but I would have preferred a more traditional documentary format. The constant rapid cutting and graphics over everyone's remarks got tiresome after a while. I think the subject matter was interesting enough to not need so many gimmicks. But it was still well worth watching for the interviews.
I agree Atom. I liked the doc a lot, and I found what they were talking about to be really fascinating. I get the feeling that they could've easily stretched that doc out 30 minutes or more.