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Interjecting humor at inappropriate times started with the MCU?!?
What am I suppose to choose here, that humor was interjected only at appropriate times before the MCU came along, or that the MCU invented humor?
They actually were.
I used to annoy people that watched it with me because I would quote the episodes verbatim as the dialog was happening...so not really sure why this would be suggested
moments of inappropriate humor seems to have been popularized in the MCU and it just kept metastasizing, until everyone started doing it, and it wouldn't surprise me if this concept infiltrated Star Trek....the humor in ST has always been contextual and not simply humor for the sake of humor, at least in TOS, TNG etc...Interjecting humor at inappropriate times started with the MCU?!?
What am I suppose to choose here, that humor was interjected only at appropriate times before the MCU came along, or that the MCU invented humor?
In TOS it definitely had moments to me of humor for the sake of it. Especially at Spock's expense.
Have you?
I watch it every year. Aside from the occasional comedy episode and the obligatory “let’s have everyone laugh (usually at Spock)” in the closing five seconds, TOS is generally very serious. The writers and actors took themselves and the show very seriously (even when the plots could be pretty dumb toward the end). The idea it was deliberately camp and silly is just like Kirk Drift; it’s an idea people have about the show that isn’t born out of any objective fact.
right, but it was always in context and seldom at inappropriate times....when Spock was melding with Mother Horta, for example, Kirk or Bones would never have walked in and said "Do you two want to be alone?"...
the quips at the end of the show at Spock's expense were apropos for the time and era of the show. Many shows of that time had humorous ending epilogues like that. But the point being that the humor was not injected in seriously dramatic moments (as I illustrated in my "Thor" examples).
Doesn't feel very appropriate to me. I found that humor more jarring than any quips.
It's poor showing that stands out against TOS yet also shows the use of humor. So I both don't have an issue with it and recognize it being of its time.
I've watched The Original Series countless times and I can say with absolute certainty that the show is filled with little moments of comedy, even in the most serious episodes.
I don't think anyone is disputing that TOS had humor, it clearly did, but as with all good writing/writers they understood when to use it and when not to.
I'd say Strange New Worlds is doing terrific with the amount of humor they've injected into the series.
But that's just me.
I love that these characters feel like actual people and not like some of the soulless automatons from the Berman Era.
hmm I'm not sure why my point is getting lost here...yes TOS had humor, even in the most serious episodes, BUT..it was never gratuitous or interjected during a particularly serious moment...when Kirk holds back Bones from saving Edith Keeler...nobody made any funny comments...
When Spock has to reject Leila Kalomi...there was no humor in their dialog...so many more examples
When Spock has to reject Leila Kalomi...there was no humor in their dialog...so many more examples
and that's fine as long as that humor is not gratuitous.
Ok? Names some examples of the humour in Strange New Worlds being "gratuitous."
Hadn't felt very gratuitous to me.
I can't, i have really watched the show, my point was that it would be unfortunate if this WAS the case...as it seems to be in most programming and has been popularized in Marvel (particularly as of late)
sorry, my server at work is blocking that, apologies!!
Not much else to say, except no.
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