Spoilers Canon, Continuity, and Pike's Accident
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Yeah. If only they'd found an actor for Picard who spoke French.
Patrick Bauchau French actor was a contender but he lost to Patrick. Even though he's french and patrick wasn't
Called the wrong Patrick. It happens.
Really should update my contact lists.
Technically, no, but I’m seriously liking the idea that every iteration of BSG that has ever existed - or ever will exist - takes place in a single universe.
“All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.”
I think the shows would be DOA. And the discussion would be about that.
Or with puppets and paper cutouts. The discussion would be very interesting then.
Along with Spock smiling?
But the plywood sets of TOS don’t impair that impression?
It’s called suspension of disbelief. Most, if not the majority, of any kind of audience (be it theatre, TV or film) are quite aware that what they are looking at is not ‘real’.
As an audience, we are expected by the creator to play along. It’s pretty basic stuff. What you’re saying (ad nauseam) is just silly. Very, very silly.
Everything would be compared to Gary Anderson's various Super Marination series like Stingray, Captain Scarlett, or Thunderbirds.
There were many places where TOS did not look as expensive as the sets of today. I don't think the Enterprise sets are one of those places.
Sure. Why not? Some day they will make another Indiana Jones movie. It might be a REALLY long time from now. Who knows?
They're making more Perry Masons. They just made an inexplicably old Philip Marlow.
Characters that have multiple stories can / should have multiple actors. It's only because it's FILM that we think "Nobody can play that part ever again." I mean, someone can TRY to make Casablanca again. I wouldn't advise it. But if they do not having the CG-reanimated corpse of Bogey will not be why they have a problem.
So far I have not been impressed with Paul Wesley not because he's not Bill Shatner but because he's not (so far) a very good James Kirk. (Fingers crossed for S2.) Chris Pine is an amazing Kirk. I really really enjoy Peck's Spock. And Mount is my platonic ideal of a starship captain at the moment.
The one tiny niche carve out exception I've thought of is Rogue One. Because it's really supposed to be the long prologue to Star Wars. It's a kind of magic trick. But it should be the exception not the rule.
OTOH, I think they absolutely should have recast Carrie Fisher for The Rise of Skywalker because not doing so hurt the story and the character. It was to be Leia's movie the way The Force Awakens was Han's and The Last Jedi's was Luke's. We're sorry that Carrie wasn't around to see it but sorrier still that neither did we.
Watching The Old Man with Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow I might consider for a moment that the actors they have cast as the "young" versions are not what I remember these men looking like in the 1990s. (Well, the Bridges character. The young Lithgow is SPOOKY.) But after that I watch the show and count my lucky stars that they didn't try any CG trickery.
Hell, the first filmed version of Perry Mason was The Case of the Velvet Claws in 1933; over 20 years before Raymond Burr started playing him on TV in 1957.
I would watch a.....Everything would be compared to Gary Anderson's various Super Marination series like Stingray, Captain Scarlett, or Thunderbirds.
series with absolutely glee.
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I like watching Chris Pine in the ST movies but not because I particularly identify him as playing the character from the old series and TV shows. If there's such a thing as "being like Kirk," he's not. But he's a strong, charming, dynamic lead so I don't worry about it.
I like Wesley fine. It all depends on what the writers have Kirk do this season.
I like Wesley fine. It all depends on what the writers have Kirk do this season.
Remember Monte Markham version?
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