This is a follow-up thread to one I posted a few months ago..
I was at an antique shopping mall and was going through a box of comics, and what is the FIRST one I find? the MAD magazine featuring the infamous satire of First Contact.
On the DVD commentary of the, Braga notes that this satire was based on an early draft of the script in which Picard remains on the planet and Riker stays aboard the the ship to fight the Borg. Indeed, he is right, but it is barely noticeable, and I'll explain why.
When I was growing up, Mad magazine made some brilliant satires of films. Though comical, the artwork was stunning, and often, exquisitely detailed. I remember the satire for the original Star Wars film, there was a panel in which Kenobi is using the Force against the stormtroopers at Mos Eisley: the drawing was almost an exact copy in every detail as the scene in the film, in particular, they got Kenobi's hooded mysterious face just right.
I bring this up because, by the time they got to doing First Contact, the quality of the artwork and even the writing drastically diminished. The story points are so loosely touched upon that I almost couldn't tell if Picard's and Riker's roles had, in, fact been reversed. The humor didn't quite hit the marks the old satires did either. Sure, Mad might have been intended for juveniles, but on that level, it was always smart, and the pans were often derived from moments in films that deserved it. By the time the 90's came around, the humor was more shallow and not nearly as funny.
Well, that's my report.
I was at an antique shopping mall and was going through a box of comics, and what is the FIRST one I find? the MAD magazine featuring the infamous satire of First Contact.
On the DVD commentary of the, Braga notes that this satire was based on an early draft of the script in which Picard remains on the planet and Riker stays aboard the the ship to fight the Borg. Indeed, he is right, but it is barely noticeable, and I'll explain why.
When I was growing up, Mad magazine made some brilliant satires of films. Though comical, the artwork was stunning, and often, exquisitely detailed. I remember the satire for the original Star Wars film, there was a panel in which Kenobi is using the Force against the stormtroopers at Mos Eisley: the drawing was almost an exact copy in every detail as the scene in the film, in particular, they got Kenobi's hooded mysterious face just right.
I bring this up because, by the time they got to doing First Contact, the quality of the artwork and even the writing drastically diminished. The story points are so loosely touched upon that I almost couldn't tell if Picard's and Riker's roles had, in, fact been reversed. The humor didn't quite hit the marks the old satires did either. Sure, Mad might have been intended for juveniles, but on that level, it was always smart, and the pans were often derived from moments in films that deserved it. By the time the 90's came around, the humor was more shallow and not nearly as funny.
Well, that's my report.
