I started watching Trek when I was six years old.
In fact everyone I know started watching Trek when they were either kids or teenagers. Compared to shows like South Park, it's quite tame.
What would be a deal breaker for you in Discovery?
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In fact everyone I know started watching Trek when they were either kids or teenagers. Compared to shows like South Park, it's quite tame.
I was seven, back in 1966 and that's when I started. Still, it wasn't aimed at six or seven year olds. And a lot of it went over my head. The monsters, spaceships and aliens were cool though. Being SF, most parents won't object to letting kids watch it, because as we know, SF is for kids anyway.I started watching Trek when I was six years old.
In fact everyone I know started watching Trek when they were either kids or teenagers.
If parents then and now payed attention, I wonder how many would have let little Jane and Johnny keep watching the show?
My grandmother was watching it right along with my dad in the sixties. The only conflict was my grandfather complaining that there HAD to be a good western instead of a show with a pointy eared Martian.I was seven, back in 1966 and that's when I started. Still, it wasn't aimed at six or seven year olds. And a lot of it went over my head. The monsters, spaceships and aliens were cool though. Being SF, most parents won't object to letting kids watch it, because as we know, SF is for kids anyway.
If parents then and now payed attention, I wonder how many would have let little Jane and Johnny keep watching the show?
And my dad and mother was at the theater with me for TWOK, a movie with all kinds of violence and blood. We still watch new Trek and Star Wars together. Its sort of a family tradition.
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You're lucky. I couldn't pay my parents to watch any form of Science Fiction.
Or maybe I was lucky.Yes I suspect political correctness instead of good story telling is on the agenda..
No. The stupid would consume all our brains. I know scifi / fantasy requires a lot of suspension of disbelief from audiences, but that would be too much.
Why would you suspect that at this stage? I don't see any indication for it at all.
They have a relatively diverse cast (that still seems to overrepresent men) but that just seems normal. They obviously don't want to share story details yet so I don't see how anybody can say how important stories are to them.
that is one of the most absurd false dichotomies I have ever heard
Whatever you are smoking? I want some!
I bet you're still waiting for Obama to invade Texas...
The Saudi's have likely had a hand in killing more American civilians than Iran. Yet, two Bush and the Trump administrations have had no issue buddying up with them. Including selling $110 billion dollars in arms to them just the other day.
Hasn't really thus far over the past 51 years. I don't see that changing really.
A response that makes no sense. What a surprise...
You know for a franchise that preaches how everything will be perfect once we get over our petty bigotries and hatred to finally work together as an united human race a lot of fans seem to actively dislike actually seeing this fulfilled on screen. When they say that humans are treated equally, it means all humans, not just the straight white men. There are plenty of interesting stories that can be told that don't involve how great straight white men are. I know diversity is a scary word with a lot of syllables, It's not going to be a Captain Planet episode. It's going to have aliens and ships zapping at each other.
Neither side had "The High Ground", that was the whole point.
Where did that come from? No one in this thread has advocated a straight white man agenda..
A show without any kind of political lean automatically supports the status quo.
No, you just don't want political correctness to "ruin" the show. So it should stick to the default or "normal people", which is straight white men.
You may not understand it, but that is exactly what you are arguing for.
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