It still comes down to personal taste, money doesn't make it look better. To my eye, the designs of the show are largely drab and unimaginative. Other folks think different. IDIC and all that.
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It still comes down to personal taste, money doesn't make it look better. To my eye, the designs of the show are largely drab and unimaginative. Other folks think different. IDIC and all that.
TOS had the bad luck of being created 60 years ago and didn't have to work as hard given the poor resolution of TVs.
I imagine they worked every bit as hard as their modern counterparts.
Yes, they did. They were pretty much inventing the wheel from week to week.
Not only that but most of the time that had to make the tools to make the wheels.
*I think Star Trek fans have a tendency to take just how innovative TOS was for granted.
Disco is not innovative in any way.
I can't tell if this is a performance or real. I think it's a performance.
I like the new uniforms up to a point. They look in the same vain as the Relativity's. But I'm glad it looks like the Discovery crew will be sticking with their own uniforms.
I really hate saying this, but I think the old guy looks like Alfred from the Adam West Batman.
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You too, huh?
Alfredo was awesome.
Good.
That's what happens when you have the sixth live-action series of anything. Feel free to stop watching any time you like.
I'm not going to say the first series wasn't innovative (even though even that series was riding off previous innovators itself). But I will say I like the sixth (and seventh) series a lot more than the second through fifth.
Waving TOS to win an argument is basically the real life equivalent of trying to wave Sacred Scripture to win an argument. And quoting Gene's Vision is like quoting The Bible. Eventually you have to get passed it or nothing else will ever be heard out or even considered. Not seriously anyway.
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I think Discovery has done a great job of honoring TOS and other shows while maintaining the higher design standards expected from modern scifi shows.
If Disco ever creates something [original] that permeates the pop culture zeitgeist the way Okudagrams have or reaches the same level of technilogical achievment as DS9 did with its space battles, I'll eat my hat.
P.S. It won't.
This has nothing to do with anything. Or rather Roddenberryism is not the reason the Jefferies Enterprise hangs in the Smithsonian.
Doubling-down. Got it. TOS is awesome. Doesn't mean I can't like Discovery.
Fuck. Your bad faith bullshit is tiresome.
TOS was ground-breaking on many levels but that production worked to different expectations in terms of budgets, limitations of technology (simple TVs, limited SFX and so on) and different audience perception.
Things have changed a tad since the '60s. Two generations later and the expectations of the general audience are much greater. The expectations of Trek fans are radically different too -- but that's another question entirely!
I don't always agree with the creative decisions made by the Discovery team but they are what they are and I can watch or not watch. For what it's worth, thus far, I think it's slowly getting better as it goes and I'm happy to see where they go from here.
Things have changed a tad since the '60s. Two generations later and the expectations of the general audience are much greater. The expectations of Trek fans are radically different too -- but that's another question entirely!
I don't always agree with the creative decisions made by the Discovery team but they are what they are and I can watch or not watch. For what it's worth, thus far, I think it's slowly getting better as it goes and I'm happy to see where they go from here.
And I never said it was.
But it's not exactly a good thing either. Source: every dwindling music career ever.
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