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News Season 2 will be the last (show cancelled)

TRON JA307020 said:
Right. Actually like Bones he probably should have had some schooling in how to be a doctor before he came to the academy. But the whole 10 episodes we hardly saw anything of his character where he has a passion for healing. His character is largely a blank slate. A show like this can't have this many main characters when there are only 10 measly episodes a season. Even after the second season this show will have less episodes than one season of classic trek.
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One of the things that crippled the show there was having to treat Ake as a main character and giving her multiple A and B stories that should have gone to fleshing out the main five.

But I suppose if you're paying 750k an episode for Holly Hunter you gotta do something with her.
 
Fateor said:
One of the things that crippled the show there was having to treat Ake as a main character and giving her multiple A and B stories that should have gone to fleshing out the main five.

But I suppose if you're paying 750k an episode for Holly Hunter you gotta do something with her.
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In the old days, if you didn't get a line in the episode, you didn't get paid, although a smart contract also establishes how many episodes you are going to be in each year.

Anyone want to guess how much paramount wanted for Star Trek Academy season 2 when they tried to sell it to Netlix? There's like a tax thing, where if they sell the show for a dollar, incurring massive loss, they can get everything back with their taxes, but that's loser talk.

BATGIRL!
 
Guy Gardener said:
In the old days, if you didn't get a line in the episode, you didn't get paid, although a smart contract also establishes how many episodes you are going to be in each year.

Anyone want to guess how much paramount wanted for Star Trek Academy season 2 when they tried to sell it to Netlix? There's like a tax thing, where if they sell the show for a dollar, incurring massive loss, they can get everything back with their taxes, but that's loser talk.

BATGIRL!
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The showrunner have directly come out and said they came into this trying to get Holly Hunter for the part of Ake.

Giant mistake, if they had gone open casting for Ake and Braka they could have probably saved at least 1 million an episode.
 
Fateor said:
The showrunner have directly come out and said they came into this trying to get Holly Hunter for the part of Ake.

Giant mistake, if they had gone open casting for Ake and Braka they could have probably saved at least 1 million an episode.
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Reba MacEntire would have been perfect.
 
Maybe they could have taken a page from highlander since the lead was supposedly almost 500 years old, tell the story throughout several eras at Star Fleet Academy pre burn, burn and post burn, which would obviously mean at least 4 completely different uniforms for the officers and cadets, as well as 4 different casts who are not immortal stapled down to their own century.
 
Detached Nacelle said:
You know it's funny the more certain demographics profess their undying hatred for Academy and their agenda to have it erased from all human memory, the stronger I find myself loving it.
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I have just seen that no episode of Daredevil Born Again has appeared in the Nielsen Weekly Top 10, but you don't see people trumpeting that as the death marker that people have with Academy
 
I would argue that if the people who "didn't watch" and thought SFA was a bad idea stopped commenting and saying things, that would be an even worse sign for Star Trek.

I tend to think this is similar to a relationship. When people expend the effort to complain, most of the time underlying their criticism is the fact they still care about the relationship enough to complain. When people stop complaining and go cold, that's even worse. It's an indication they've given up and things are nearing an end.

I understand there's grifters and awful people online who've co-opted Star Trek to get views and clicks to complain about DEI and social justice. But I also believe there's a contingent of fans who honestly didn't like this concept and it's execution, and don't like the overall direction of this franchise.
 
Elaise said:
It would be the best thing they could do to get more attention to the show. Though how did it work for Prodigy.
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Right. But after netflix bought Prodigy I hardly heard about it. Since sfa looks like it did worse than Prodigy I really doubt Netflix would buy it. If I was the accounting guy at paramount I would recommend a tax write off. Running the 2nd season would give paramount little return. A tax write off would put easy money in their pockets that they could spend on something else
 
TRON JA307020 said:
Right. But after netflix bought Prodigy I hardly heard about it. Since sfa looks like it did worse than Prodigy I really doubt Netflix would buy it. If I was the accounting guy at paramount I would recommend a tax write off. Running the 2nd season would give paramount little return. A tax write off would put easy money in their pockets that they could spend on something else
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They can run it and still write it off to some extent.
 
Citiprime said:
I would argue that if the people who "didn't watch" and thought SFA was a bad idea stopped commenting and saying things, that would be an even worse sign for Star Trek.

I tend to think this is similar to a relationship. When people expend the effort to complain, most of the time underlying their criticism is the fact they still care about the relationship enough to complain. When people stop complaining and go cold, that's even worse. It's an indication they've given up and things are nearing an end.

I understand there's grifters and awful people online who've co-opted Star Trek to get views and clicks to complain about DEI and social justice. But I also believe there's a contingent of fans who honestly didn't like this concept and it's execution, and don't like the overall direction of this franchise.
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Bingo.
SNW had its grifters and anti DEI youtubers thrown it's way too. Yet it still had high popularity and will finish up with five seasons.

I mean, people can ignore IGN, rottentomatoes , ratings and other metrics all they want. But when one Trek show is scoring high in those metrics while the other is scoring low, you cant claim that its just a small loud minority of grifters hating it .
 
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