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I got the impression Seth is making comments to try to attract the audience that dislikes Discovery and JJ-Trek. The audience that just wants revel in nostalgia and consume things that look like other things they know and love.

It strikes me that he's very obviously taking advantage of the division within the fandom to gain attention and gather viewers.

 

[Noname Given]

I got the impression Seth is making comments to try to attract the audience that dislikes Discovery and JJ-Trek. The audience that just wants revel in nostalgia and consume things that look like other things they know and love.

It strikes me that he's very obviously taking advantage of the division within the fandom to gain attention and gather viewers.

Yeah, in a way, he's trying to get more eyes on his show. (Which isn't a bad thing as Seth knows FIRST HAND that FOX is ALL ABOUT RATINGS when it comes to any show renewal prospects.)

 

[jamestyler]

I got the impression Seth is making comments to try to attract the audience that dislikes Discovery and JJ-Trek. The audience that just wants revel in nostalgia and consume things that look like other things they know and love.

It strikes me that he's very obviously taking advantage of the division within the fandom to gain attention and gather viewers.

Sounds familier....

....but it's such a bad strategy for a professional. Rule one: NEVER bash the competition.

I could be wrong, but my impression from the interview wasn't that Seth was taking a pot shot at Discovery (though he's clearly under the impression that it's darker and less optimistic, as am I when I see the trailers) but that he was taking a shot at post-Enterprise Star Trek (i.e., the Kelvin Timeline) which is definitely a darker, less optimistic universe.

We've had eight years of people complaining it's too bright, not Kelvin Trek is too dark. There's no winning

 

[BRT]

Sounds familier....

....but it's such a bad strategy for a professional. Rule one: NEVER bash the competition.



We've had eight years of people complaining it's too bright, not Kelvin Trek is too dark. There's no winning

lol! The SETS aren't dark, but the overall feel of the films is darker.

 

[jamestyler]

lol! The SETS aren't dark, but the overall feel of the films is darker.

Despite the jokey comment, I wouldn't say so. TOS had it's share of action and edge (for the time), the most loved (and overrated) TOS film was about revenge and the actual best another dark tale (TUC).

The KT isn't any more dark than what came before.

 

[RAMA]

This is what we've come to, a Trekkie telling us a STAR TREK show can't use: "To Boldy Go". Unbelievable. Now we know the whiners will complain about anything and they're reaching the bottom of the barrel.

RAMA

I'm really just totally exhausted hearing the "to boldly go" phrase for the last 50 fucking years. Not just in Star Trek, but in car commercials and other crap as well. It's a horribly overused phrase and Discovery is resurrecting it without originality or freshness.

Bah humbug on the to-boldly-go shit.

I can't wait to get past the next two months of bullshit promos and other misleading horseshit and actually get to see the show.

 

[Spider]

This is what we've come to, a Trekkie telling us a STAR TREK show can't use: "To Boldy Go". Unbelievable. Now we know the whiners will complain about anything and they're reaching the bottom of the barrel.

RAMA

Overreact much?

The two biggest cliches from scifi are Star Trek's boldly going and 2001's Thus Spake Zarathustra music. They are constantly used in commercials and are worn out. And I never said they couldn't use it, because obviously they can do anything they like.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

More to the point, there's a difference between saying one is "tired of hearing of it" and saying "they can't or shouldn't use it."

 

[Kaelef]

Overreact much?

The two biggest cliches from scifi are Star Trek's boldly going and 2001's Thus Spake Zarathustra music.

Well, there's definitely someone overreacting.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

To be honest, I've unfollowed a LOT of groups over the past week. I just can't deal with the level of petty arguing for the sake of arguing I'm seeing on a regular basis. My ten year old comes up with better arguments than I've read from grown men!

I'm just forever thankful that I'm part of a fan club filled with normal, optimistic people. They've kept me relatively sane!

I had your experience on Facebook, only it was with fans of Wonder Woman at a Wonder Woman fan group; all that they could do was bash Man of Steel and BvS: Dawn Of Justice despite both movies's successes paving the way for Wonder Woman to be a success at the box office, and also despite the fact that Zack Snyder had something to do with the writing of Wonder Woman. My last nerve was pushed, and I unjoined that group rather than stand the Snyder-bashing any longer.

 

[RAMA]

Ted Sullivan‏Verified account @karterhol
If you think @startrekcbs is gonna be any other TV show, you got a big surprise coming #cinematic #michelleyeoh

I think we realized this after the first trailer.

 

[Noname Given]

Ted Sullivan‏Verified account @karterhol
If you think @startrekcbs is gonna be any other TV show, you got a big surprise coming #cinematic #michelleyeoh

I think we realized this after the first trailer.

Um...

#cinematic #michelleyeoh

^^^
So, @startrekcbs is now going to be Asian action cinema (what does Chow Yun-Fat make a cameo at some point too?)

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Um...

^^^
So, @startrekcbs is now going to be Asian action cinema (what does Chow Yun-Fat make a cameo at some point too?)

No, it won't. And she's too old to be doing that anyway, having done her last action role in the last movie of the previous Mummy series (she's 55 now.)

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

Um...

^^^
So, @startrekcbs is now going to be Asian action cinema (what does Chow Yun-Fat make a cameo at some point too?)

Personally, I think both would be awesome.

 

[The Doctor]

I would watch the shit out of Chow Yun-Fat in Star Trek.

No, it won't. And she's too old to be doing that anyway, having done her last action role in the last movie of the previous Mummy series (she's 55 now.)

That's ridiculous. She was just in the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel.

 

[Noname Given]

No, it won't. And she's too old to be doing that anyway, having done her last action role in the last movie of the previous Mummy series (she's 55 now.)

Um, you realize my post was a joke, right?
(And to the poster above RE: Chow Yun-Fat -- so would I )

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Um, you realize my post was a joke, right?
(And to the poster above RE: Chow Yun-Fat -- so would I )

Sorry about that. Apology accepted?

 

[Noname Given]

Sorry about that. Apology accepted?

No apology needed. Sometimes sarcastic humor is hard to spot in text only form.

 

[cultcross]

We've had eight years of people complaining it's too bright, not Kelvin Trek is too dark. There's no winning

I really struggle to see where people get 'darker/less optimistic' from the trailer. OK, it is literally darker than most previous Trek, in that the lighting is darker, but the tone is all 'exploration', 'boldly go', 'destiny', 'edge of the final frontier' stuff. If anything, I feel they're banging the "Let's See What's Out There!" Button a bit hard.

 

[Noname Given]

I really struggle to see where people get 'darker/less optimistic' from the trailer. OK, it is literally darker than most previous Trek, in that the lighting is darker, but the tone is all 'exploration', 'boldly go', 'destiny', 'edge of the final frontier' stuff. If anything, I feel they're banging the "Let's See What's Out There!" Button a bit hard.

To be fair I think for some it's the:

"Oh...let's see what's out there..."
...
"Oh, Klingons...<yawn>"

(Not me, I love the fact it's in/near the TOS era and the Klingons are the antagonist myself.)