I can believe that. It's not normal to take most of a season off to do promotional stuff.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x08 - "Labyrinths"
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Hmmm...I don't know if I can agree to that.You're definitely free to have your opinion about DS9 as long as it is that DS9 is the pinnacle of Star Trek so far!
Because the Original Series is always tops for me.
If in the future you ever wonder why I won't dignify you with a reply, this is it right here. I don't appreciate being backhandedly called a racist.
Right. I'm sure there's more to the story than what's being presented. Which is fine. But, no, doing promotional work for a movie doesn't prevent one from filming a TV series to such an extent.That's also an acceptable opinion!Hmmm...I don't know if I can agree to that.
Because the Original Series is always tops for me.
You're a writer. I'm sure you can write me out of existence.
I mean, I'm not going to assume anything right now. Contracts are different now. Mount took time off and reduced scheduling due to the birth of his child for Season 2 of Strange New Worlds. Other factors are no doubt involved. I want assume or raise an eyebrow at someone else's business.
At least in show business. Because, well, they don't really share all the details.
Indeed.That's also an acceptable opinion!
Two of the best episodes of TNG focused on O'Brien.
I strive for that mindset, particularly when it's for something as relatively unimportant as a TV show. Now, I don't always succeed!
But yes, it's a good goal.
Why did you assume I was talking about you though? That's weird.
That's a great point about Mount. It's possible the Paramount is a very family friendly, life balance type of organization. Or maybe it's one that has reasons to cut costs? We may never know!
California has a lot of transplants and imported accents that come from other states and countries. Living here in Central California I hear a lot of the letter 's' substituted with 'x' which probably comes from the US northeast (ask becomes axe, escape becomes excape, especially becomes expecially). There are those in my area that never lost their family's Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas accents when their parents left the 'dust bowl' and came to CA's central valley in the dirty 30's (Country singer Merle Haggard the Okey From Muskogee was born in Oildale, Actor Sam Elliot was born in Sacramento and raised in Oregon, Actor Slim Pickens was born in Kingsburg).
Maybe you heard wrong. Jones seems to have confirmed it.
IMHO, only two episodes across all of Discovery didn't have Michael as the "main character," as it were. Those being Terra Firma parts 1/2, where Georgiou is clearly the POV.
I wish Discovery had experimented with this format more. I don't think it would have taken away from SMG's status as lead actor if we got an entire episode from the perspective of Stamets or something.
This is, to me, the biggest disappointment regarding Discovery.
When it was first announced as being a darker, serialized Star Trek, I was thrilled, because DS9 was far and away my favorite Trek series. I thought we would be getting "peak TV" style writing, allowing for long-form character arcs where we'd get to explore an extended cast.
Instead, DIS has mostly hewn to plot-based, rather than character-based writing. Worse still is there's very little continuity from season to season. If something interesting is established regarding a character in one season, there's no guarantee at all it will be followed up on. That's not to say there's not some continuity, but it all relates to the state of the universe, not the relationships between the characters.
PIC was, if anything, worse regarding this. But so far I've been impressed with SNW's attention to character, despite its supposed existence as a more episodic show.
This is one of my biggest issues with the season to begin with, and why the lack of any long-term planning on Discovery is so frustating.
In Season 4, Michael and Book had this unbreakable bond. A deep and abiding love for one another was so deep, that even when Book sided with the closest thing the season had to an antagonist, they still didn't break up with one another. Seemed a weird way to take things, but maybe they wanted that happy ending.
Then, between seasons, they sort of break up offscreen because they forget to respond to one another's DMs for awhile.
Don't get me wrong, I think the idea of them breaking up is better, dramatically speaking! But that's why they should have done it at the end of last season, allowing this season to focus on the reconciliation. I dunno if they feared they were going to be canceled a year earlier, and wanted to have the happiest ending possible or what, but it was so frustrating that the writers couldn't be constrained by the earlier decisions and just shook the etch-a-sketch.
There were many other examples of this, of course. Like how at the end of Season 3, Stamets hates Michael over something she did that risked Adira, and he just gets over it between seasons. Why spend all season setting up a dramatic conflict, and have no payoff? It just makes no sense.
I feel like that about Stamets as well.
Because it's a mix. We've literally had the Gorn threat since Season 1, and in Season 2, episode 1, Admiral April was fully aware of a cruiser.
Strange New Worlds is hewing closer to a show like J*A*G or NCIS than full serialized like Daredevil or Rings of Power.
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