Very true. A Starship moving through space is at least somewhat relevant to Star Trek though isn't it ?
Like I said, let's wait and see when it comes to Discovery.
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Very true. A Starship moving through space is at least somewhat relevant to Star Trek though isn't it ?
Like I said, let's wait and see when it comes to Discovery.
Romance, sex and sexuality were a much bigger part of TOS than TNG to my recollection. Kirk was always romancing someone. The women's costumes were designed to titillate. Spock`s plots often contained a romantic element.
It rarely moves the story forward.
Police cars and the need for getting around New York were relevant to N.Y.P.D Blue, but since time spent showing cops driving around and parking didn't move stories forward such stuff was infrequently shown.
Honestly, I doubt they'll go much farther than the Marvel Netflix shows, if even that far. Again, let's read defensively and pay attention to who's being interviewed and who is shaping the direction of the interview. This was not the producers saying "We are definitely going to show nudity." This was an interviewer asking the CEO of CBS Digital whether the show could go farther than on broadcast TV and the CEO saying that yes, "theoretically," it could. He's not even the guy writing or producing or directing the shows. He's just the guy they answer to. He was asked a question about what CBS All Access would potentially allow in one of its shows and he answered. This is all just theoretical -- he literally used that word.
In the case of the Marvel shows, they're on a distribution service that allows graphic nudity, violence, and profanity, but they still choose to limit how far they go in all three -- farther than network TV, but not all the way to HBO levels. Because their audience still includes a lot of people who are fans of the other, more PG-13 Marvel output, so they don't want to go too far beyond that. I wouldn't be surprised if the makers of new Star Trek felt the same way -- that there should be limits on how far they push the envelope beyond where it's been pushed on past Trek.
If nothing else, it would remind the audience that the story takes place on a spaceship and not the hallway of a Holiday Inn.
True. With the TNG sets, it was difficult to tell.
Fair enough. I think Daredevil has done a good job, but I don't know if I would tae Trek that route.
Regardless, I remain skeptical and in wait and see mode on Discovery,
And as I said in another thread, they had tried to add nudes to Stargate SG-1 and then they immediately backpedaled.
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A fair point, we should probably ban all Starship shots in the new series, Would save a fortune on the budget.
Seriously, this is a really strange way of coming at this.
I think some of the earlier episodes of Jessica Jones really pushed the boundaries of what should be appropriate of what a comic book show should be showing.
In particular the scene with Luke and Jessica and the broken bed. Was that really necessary ?
Who was exploited, and how?
No, it's just a fact. Nobody is being denied any choices or is being used. Completely off topic.
The audience?
I always finding myself wondering what kind of crazy hotels people live in when I see that simile brought up. Hexagonal corridors...metal plating...
Alice Eve in STID immediately comes to mind. I tried to show my gf STID because it's a movie I really love (despite that scene), and she felt alienated and insulted by it. And you know what, I felt the same way as someone who cares about this issue. She liked the rest of the movie, but her feelings about it are 100% valid and shared by a lot of other people. It's exploitative.
Certainly it was necessary. Jessica is an intense, passionate, very lonely and damaged person who's also superhumanly strong. Luke is the first man she ever met who could physically withstand it if she really cut loose (more than the bed could withstand it), and that was a release that she needed as part of her emotional healing process. It was an important moment for her from a character standpoint.
Sex is not intrinsically bad. Done right, it's healthy and healing and life-affirming and it builds trust and caring and respect between the participants. And that's what Luke gave Jessica, for the first time in a long time. It was very important to her character development, to the story of her recovery. The ability to find a healthy, supportive sexual relationship is important for a survivor of sexual abuse, to help overwrite the negative associations they've been made to feel toward their own bodies and the concept of intimacy with positive ones. Jessica and Luke's healthy, loving, openly sexual relationship was an important part of the Alias comics on which the series was based, and it would've made no sense to exclude it from the show.
Think color, carpets, wallpaper and Vegas art deco.
Well, using "serving the story" as the primary justification for ruling stylistic choices in or out is itself myopic at best and disingenuous at worst. That's the point. Film and television is a visual medium first.
If your hospital is full of bright primary colors, blinking lights and discothèque lighting. Then yes.
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