Yes, that's what I said.
10 episodes vs more per season
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Yes, that's what I said.
Yes, on the Enterprise. Where as I was suggesting that away missions and alien-of-the-week could be the bottle episodes.
If it was an away mission episode, by definition it wouldn't be a bottle episode?
Part of the reason Walking Dead was able to do 16 episode seasons was because they often split the cast up and have episodes which only focus on a few main characters, allowing production to film multiple episodes simultaneously. Not exactly a practical option for SNW where the focus is to be "traditional Trek" with most of the main cast showing up every week and working together on the week's mission.
And even then, the Walking Dead franchise is now scaling back on their annual output. The upcoming final season of Fear the Walking Dead will only have twelve episodes, and the upcoming Walking Dead spin-offs will only have six episode seasons.
All valid points.
But regarding cost, it's not cheap to have all those walkers, or building run down towns, sheds, and other things. Practical effects may be cheaper than CGI, but they still cost. Plus, TWD does use CGI. (Granted, nowhere near the extent ST does, but it's still used.)
Shit...I just realized that with the cutting back measures we are getting closer and closer to a zombie episode of Star Trek due to saving on set costs...
Shit...I just realized that with the cutting back measures we are getting closer and closer to a zombie episode of Star Trek due to saving on set costs...
STAR TREK already did a zombie episode. It's called "IMPULSE"... ENT season 3.
And we already have real life zombie examples... like the guy in Miami (of course it would be here) a few years back eating a guy's face off.
Missed it.
And? I don't want zombies in my Star Trek. I feel like that is painfully obvious at this point...
Do it over again, but with half-human Vulcan colonists on a planet loaded with trillium D deposits.
Or with Romulans. And the crew doesn’t realize that their Romulans.
Rather 13 episodes as aposed to 8-10, especially when like star wars doing 37 minute episodes. atleast Trek is 55 or so.
But as i've said before, let the story dictate length. If you have a story for 8, do 8, etc.
They could do a seperate crew, or seperate people, like there doing with Raffi this season on Picard, have another crew do some time.
But as i've said before, let the story dictate length. If you have a story for 8, do 8, etc.
They could do a seperate crew, or seperate people, like there doing with Raffi this season on Picard, have another crew do some time.
Shit...I just realized that with the cutting back measures we are getting closer and closer to a zombie episode of Star Trek due to saving on set costs...
They already did a Star Trek zombie episode. It was called "Q Who?". And "The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I & II." And Star Trek: First Contact. And "Scorpion, Parts I & II." And "The Raven." And "Dark Frontier, Parts I & II." And "Unimatrix Zero, Parts I & II." And "Endgame, Parts I & II." And "Let Sleeping Borg Lie." And...
The disease in "Miri" seemed to have a zombie phase before the person died.
I guess they're more like the traditional Haitian concept of a zombie, a person put under a trance that makes them susceptible to suggestion, in this case from a computer.Or TOS S1 Return of the Archons, whenever Landru "Summons The Body..."
I'm just saying no to zombies. All of them.
My preference would be around 15 a season. But it depends if they have the creative juices. My instics tell me they do when it comes to SNW. After 5 seasons, that would of gotten them to close to how many TOS made in 3 years. 10 I think works for season long arcs. 13-15 suits episodic more IMO. But really depends on the writing.
Also another consideration is actor availability . Less episodes allows actors to engage in other projects. Not saying tis the case here, but if 10 episodes is what makes a main actor stay with the show, then I would take less episodes rather the actor leaving the show or the actor doing less episodes with the character being "offscreen"
Also another consideration is actor availability . Less episodes allows actors to engage in other projects. Not saying tis the case here, but if 10 episodes is what makes a main actor stay with the show, then I would take less episodes rather the actor leaving the show or the actor doing less episodes with the character being "offscreen"
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I've thought they should switch the SNW (10) and Discovery (13) episode counts. Not even about the quality, I just think it fits the style of show better. Though apparently DIS is already switching to 10...
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