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Are We Taking Trek Too Seriously?

That's kind where I fall. If the announcement of a new Trek project causes you more anxiety than anticipation, maybe you need to put things back into perspective and remember that, among other things, we're talking entertainment here. If we're not having fun, what's the point?


In my case as a ST fan from the original run of TOS, I loved the show so much that I felt duty bound to watch post TOS Trek.

That's why even though it was sheer, groaning agony, I forced myself to watch VOY and ENT before I finally had to stop.

Robert
 
In my case as a ST fan from the original run of TOS, I loved the show so much that I felt duty bound to watch post TOS Trek.

That's why even though it was sheer, groaning agony, I forced myself to watch VOY and ENT before I finally had to stop.

Robert
Thankfully I've enjoyed most of Trek since TOS, but in the case of Marvel I put the brakes on pretty sharpish. I can like the films... make that most of the films... and one or two of the shows... but there's a lot I'm gonna avoid/have zero interest in/think is rubbish. Similarly, not every new Trek will be for me. But we'll see.

Life's too short to torture yourself watching anything that doesn't bring you joy.
 
In my case as a ST fan from the original run of TOS, I loved the show so much that I felt duty bound to watch post TOS Trek.


That's why even though it was sheer, groaning agony, I forced myself to watch VOY and ENT before I finally had to stop.

Robert

I know how it feels to be a completionist - Two and a Half Men till the end (for my sins) and I only recently weened myself off the need to watch The Simpsons every Monday morning. Was kind of like because I'd invested so much time, and it was part of my routine, I had to keep going - took half a season without even a chuckle for me to finally give it up.

I've said this about football before - if something you purport to love is making you angry then you need to check yourself and get your life priorities in order.

If you are an adult and you allow a TV show, a football team, something else that you are a fan of, to spoil your day or your weekend, to make you angry enough to say that what is happening now is spoiling your memory of it, you need to look at your priorities, grab a beer, have a smoke, visit Madame Palm or whatever you do to chill out, and then put the keyboard down.

This doesn't mean that you can't say you didn't enjoy a storyline, or the visuals (I've said how I find TOS-R to look like a Robot Chicken level animation), or whatever but that is a world apart from chatting shit and having a go at people you don't even know because they don't love GR's creation (and it is his, and also Berman's to an extent) in the same exact way you do and don't care about the exact same thing you care about (I've heard that minute 12, episode 3, Season 5, of TNG is the most important moment in the whole franchise and if the future shows aren't built perfectly around that then it is dead to me) and don't present it exactly how you have in your dreams.

I'm Kent Brockman, and that's my two cents
 
In my case as a ST fan from the original run of TOS, I loved the show so much that I felt duty bound to watch post TOS Trek.

That's why even though it was sheer, groaning agony, I forced myself to watch VOY and ENT before I finally had to stop.

Robert
Same here. I thought, well, if I'm going to discuss those shows intelligently on TrekBBS, I have to watch them. It finally occurred to me that I don't HAVE to discuss them, so... :lol:
 
Same here. I thought, well, if I'm going to discuss those shows intelligently on TrekBBS, I have to watch them. It finally occurred to me that I don't HAVE to discuss them, so... :lol:


I was kidding about it being agony watching VOY and ENT, I kinda still enjoyed watching those shows but my interest WAS waning during those years, it seemed to me that the eps were becoming formulaic.

I recorded and preserved every single episode of TNG and DS9 on VHS tape so I could watch them over and over again.

And then I was doing the same with VOY but by the end of season 2, I realized I wasn't interested in watching it over and over again any more. So I just started using one tape cassette to record six eps and then recording over them reusing that same tape without preserving episodes. So starting with the 3rd season of VOY and through to the end of ENT, I only watched each episode once or twice.

I'm sure I would have watched post ENT Trek but I had gone blind and quit watching TV by '09 so ENT was my last Trek show.

Robert
 
I like Halo well enough as a game, but I quit the TV show after 2 episodes. It just wasn’t for me.

However it seemed people in the relevant thread were having a good time with it so I butted out and let them get on with it.

There are too many good shows and too little time to waste on ones I don’t like.
 
And then they go and start making more Futurama... I want to watch Peaky Blinders, Severance, Sweet Tooth, Star Trek: Prodigy, Raised by Wolves...

Too many shows. Too little time.

My general rule is I give a show two episodes and if I'm not enthusiastic about watching the third it doesn't tend to happen. The only exceptions are Doctor Who and Star Trek for which I will grind through years worth of stuff I don't like if I have to. For Star Trek this has never happened in fact.

I don't mean to come off as if I'm saying "if you don't like X Star Trek show, just watch something else". I just mean there are great shows out there. TV is really an interesting beast these days now it's been splintered across so many media.

In the last year or two I have watched and would recommend:

Alice in Borderland
The Queen's Gambit
The Crown
Foundation
The Spy
Legion
Wandavision
Fargo
Squid Game
Better Call Saul
...

It's a list that goes on and on and I think it's at least somewhat true to say there is a show out there for almost anybody, somewhere.

Movies too. Movies are disgustingly, prolifically good these days and there's so many I want to see. I might watch The Martian this weekend just to spite time.
 
I am using this forum I've been a member of since 2005 and have posted and commented in 9,359 times (often about the pretend timeline of a fictional universe) to say: Yeah, probably. :)

Fun fact: A couple of years ago one of my Facebook friends defriended me when I posted a humorous thread about watching TMP synced up with Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and George Harrison's All Things Must Pass in the manner of The Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon. I'd say that person was definitely taking things too seriously.
 
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