There are too many superhero shows on at the moment and I might be dropping one, just because there's so much limited time.
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There are too many superhero shows on at the moment and I might be dropping one, just because there's so much limited time.
I think part of the issue is that there has become this alarming trend of wanting to compartmentalize what a series is. There isn't any real desire (nor ability in today's TV audience) to be able to switch gears while watching a TV series. It has to be one way and that's it. Many people can't get their head around a show that can have adventure and use a lighter touch to it.
I've shown people 60's adventure shows that have the quips, banter or humor interspersed. Some people don't know what to make of it, because they can't understand that a dangerous situation had a joke said in the middle of it.
Which is fine. The point is you have a diverse selection of shows to choose from. No one is saying you have to watch all of them and the same is true for space-faring shows.
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Heck, I wish The Orville, Discovery, The Expanse, Killjoys they all succeed! I even wish they change their minds and Dark Matter gets renewed.
So as far as Alara. Shouldn't a species from a planet with higher gravity be shorter and more muscular and have a higher mass?
When Alara knocks that door down, she would seem to have a lot more mass/weight. We know the Hulk can do that jump/flight thing like Alara did.
When Alara knocks that door down, she would seem to have a lot more mass/weight. We know the Hulk can do that jump/flight thing like Alara did.
If I may continue your comic book analogy, Alara is more like Golden Age Superman or Supergirl. GA Kryptonians, though otherwise completely human, were physically superior to natives of Earth because Krypton's much heavier gravity made them all stronger, their muscles having evolved and adapted to the greater resistance.
I think if the Orville was being insulting to Trek, then I can see how watching it could be seen as betraying Trek. But that is not the case
Yeah, there was even a poster over in the Discovery forum here who got pissy when someone else mentioned liking The Orville. I don't get that kind of an attitude, I like having so many different space sci-fi shows on the air right now. For a long time we didn't have any, so I'm thrilled that we actually have 4 on the air right now.
OK, I thought maybe you didn't know about them.
I would actually love to have a detailed discussion about this sort of thing in a separate thread. Would you join in if I started one?
The creator of the two games is the same, but I'm pretty sure the copyrights for the two games are owned by different publishers.
Dark Matter?
I've already dropped Arrow.
You can't "betray Trek." Trek does not care.
There have been times when I've felt a little discomfort at criticizing Trek projects that I had friends working on. That's a little different.
It's entertainment. If it's not entertaining you, you owe it nothing.
I watch Supergirl and The Flash. I may let The Flash go this season; we'll see.
There have been times when I've felt a little discomfort at criticizing Trek projects that I had friends working on. That's a little different.
It's entertainment. If it's not entertaining you, you owe it nothing.
I watch Supergirl and The Flash. I may let The Flash go this season; we'll see.
Well, if she's anything like Star Trek: New Frontier's Zak Kebron (who I keep thinking of in comparison to her), then perhaps she wears a special gravity belt that allows her to compensate for local gravity.
Well, that's just plain obnoxious and those kind of people should be ignored.
Not necessarily. We have things like elephants and giraffes right here in the same 1G environment. Being stout or spindly is not wholly dependent on the gravitational pull.
- You were having release delays. There were entire months I couldn't watch you.
- Yeah, I was working for us, for you and I. You know this.
- I didn't ask you to do that. Okay? You just shut off from our relationship. I didn't know how to handle it.
- So you tuned in to The Orville in our bedroom TV. That's one way to handle it.
- Seth MacFarlane was there when you weren't...
Pretty sure he was wondering what Bortas' actual job on the ship is, not the chain of command. Which "second officer" doesn't tell you.
I meant as a standalone job. Data was also the operations officer.
I think it may have something to do with "performance anxiety".
There's a new Trek show coming, an apparently dark, gritty one, that has seen a troubled production and hasn't been all that well received by the fan base.
There's a real anxiety that STD may fail.
And along comes an optimistic, Star-Trek-esque show that gets good ratings and is pretty well received by sci-fi fans.
That can create some tension. But is nothing like the shitstorm that's to come, if STD doesn't succeed and Orville does.
(Personally I liked all the previous ST shows. But I'm fairly agnostic and if Orville turns out to be a good show, heck that's good enough for me!)