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And Shaw purged the Titan computer of Riker's music, so if the ship has the computer core and pieces like the nacelles, then it's gotta be the "same" ship. But I don't think we'll all agree on this. Dave Blass posted some more about the issue and how components get recycled because of the Mars...
Yeah. I'm happy with the way SNW has reimagined the period. The recreations worked in specific situations like on DS9 and Enterprise. For a full series? Nah. I kind of wish the last SNW has recreated the set for their Balance of Terror sections. I accept that DSC and SNW will use revised visuals...
But what is your computer if not the hard drive, video card and RAM? if you kept the case and replaced all those, is it the same computer? One piece changed at a time until everything is different? I moved my components from one tower to a new one and don't consider that a new computer at all...
I liked this better than the premiere episode. I appreciated the little bit of Titan being like a serialized show akin to Discovery versus the throwback to TNG that Lower Decks is.
For sure. First viewing are always saddled with expectations, so you're reacting to all of that more than the product itself. I'm been mixed on DISCOVERY all along. Hating things, liking things, rebelling against choices. But I'm rewatching season one now, and knowing it's its own thing and it's...
It may be overused but when I hear someone replace it with fudge or frak or frick I just feel they're censoring themselves needlessly and it waters the line down. It loses power when that person uses the word constantly. The word needs to be punctuation. It needs to be as well used as any adverb...
Because of network restrictions. The original show used frak to get around standards and practices and to reach a family-friendly audience. The new show was at a time when even cable networks were hesitant to push the language even though they always could say fuck. If BSG were on today they...
With PADDs, I think it's about multitasking. I often use my iPhone to text while I'm looking at a document on my iPad and a video is playing on my desktop. It's still just a device with one screen and they always seem to be reading one thing at a time on them. And maybe they're extremely...
Klingons were eventually explained in story, making it a difference people in the universe saw, not just the audience. Plus, the design evolved through the timeline. And each change after TMP was a refinement. Still ridges, still long hair.
The sets are essentially the same design from the films...
Why? What's wrong with the original? And don't give me that lame excuse about it not being cool enough. They recyled a forty year old design for their main ship. But jesus, what is with the way they light space shots? So damn shiny. It's obnoxious to look at. Give me clean space shots of ships...
I think it gets praise as the best first season because it's telling one story and people are thinking of it as a whole. But it's not really a fair comparison when the other shows were episodic. I'd say DS9 or TOS have stronger individual episodes. How many Discovery episodes exist on their own...
I like a balance between continuity and good storytelling. Continuity is a challenge, not a shackle. It also says you're creating a world that builds and grows and not just constantly contradicting yourself. Continuity in a single story is crucial, but even in films they allow some errors to...
It's a typically "prestige" TV or streaming show title design. Soft music, names but no characters, lots of things moving and dripping and spinning, all the creative credits here rather than on screen. And each episode this will look different. Notice how small the cast is. This show isn't...
I found them to be blander and less diverse than in the past. Yes, some have weirder head shapes, but they're still a uniform mess of sharp angles and bald heads. And honestly, beyond the lead and the albino, I didn't know who was who.
Lucas isn't alone in this technique. Jabba gets subtitles because we need to understand him to understand the story. What Chewie says is not important because we understand it through the context. This trick is used in lots of films. But I always like in Star Wars how characters can speak...
I don't think you can look at it as "a movie about two ships." You have to see it as a story first and integrate multiple ships and locations as best as you can. The recent Trek novels have featured multiple ships and have done it well by focusing the story on characters doing things and not a...