I (when I retry to watch it anyway) always turn frame smoothing on for ENT to bump it to 60fps because it makes it look closer to the earlier Treks. This maybe a side effect of living in a PAL region...but logically that can’t make much sense.
A shitty Trek soap opera?
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I (when I retry to watch it anyway) always turn frame smoothing on for ENT to bump it to 60fps because it makes it look closer to the earlier Treks. This maybe a side effect of living in a PAL region...but logically that can’t make much sense.
Absolutely Fabulous in space, staring Lwaxana Troi as Patsy Stone. (or maybe she's Edina)
Veronica (on) Mars.
You know, I've been thinking for some time that trek could learn a thing or two from soap operas.
Havent daytime soaps been in a pretty long decline? I havent looked lately but seems like there aren't many around, now. I know there was an attempt for one of them to hop over to streaming, but it didn't work out.
Soap operas are fairly low budget, and should be a low bar to entry with the right sponsorship or subsriber system, but if so, why haven't they already popped up here and there? I think part of it is that people don't really like soaps anymore. They get their serialized production with higher production values now, so they dont care. They dont HAVE to watch daytime soaps instead of the better done evening shows because that's all that's on when they can just DVR it or watch it online.
I don't think there's anything Trek can learn from soap operas it hasn't picked up already.
Soap operas are fairly low budget, and should be a low bar to entry with the right sponsorship or subsriber system, but if so, why haven't they already popped up here and there? I think part of it is that people don't really like soaps anymore. They get their serialized production with higher production values now, so they dont care. They dont HAVE to watch daytime soaps instead of the better done evening shows because that's all that's on when they can just DVR it or watch it online.
I don't think there's anything Trek can learn from soap operas it hasn't picked up already.
Old school trek, to my eyes at least, nearly always seemed to be set as if it were a stage production more than anything else.
Perhaps that "stage thinking" needs to return to the franchise, at least in some form?
I think Picard should be cinematic -- in a good way -- to make up for the TNG Movies.
Beyond that, "stage thinking" wouldn't be so bad. Except I think there's great cinematography in Discovery, Short Treks, and Picard. I wouldn't want that sacrificed for the sake of "stage play". But I do think it would be nice if the camera stopped spinning around some time.
There's a happy medium somewhere. I think "Calypso" strikes that balance.
Can't argue with the happy medium, though I don't think it should be "cinematic" for the sake of it, as modern directors are want to do.
"The Lwaxana Troi and Archie Bunker Variety Show" - you know it's just begging to be made! Until then, there's Maude...
No, it goes "and then there's Maude."Until then, there's Maude...
