And ten hour meetings in the conference rooms...
Discovery at SDCC - Consolidated Thread
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Like anything else, I recognize the good with the bad. Berman's greatest gift to Trek? He kept the trains running on time and on budget. Like a good producer is supposed to.
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Well, that's not Berman Trek then because TOS had that as well.
Haha, perhaps. But... I liked those meetings, they offered the opportunity to hear thoughtful comments from crewmembers. i wouldn't mind if Discovery is like that.And ten hour meetings in the conference rooms...
Well, technically, that would be an Engineer, or a Conductor, or a Chief Dispatcher, or a Signal Box Operator, or Sir Topham Hatt for keeping the trains running on time and on budget.
I have meetings in work that are around a big table. I don't watch TV to see people sit round a table and exchange ideas. TOS did great with it, because they had a Briefing Room scene, got the idea worked out, and got back to the task at hand. It wasn't blubbering about Dixon Hill, or how some threat reminds them of a candy shoppe on Deneb IV.
Not true - Dorn and Sirtis didn't like each other almost from day one; and Stewart thought there was too much levity on the set for most of the first season.
Amen to that.
The hyperbole about TNG has reached critical mass. TNG did what you said TOS did.
No hyperbole, not to me anyway. It was what I saw from it when I watched it. It got to where there were a lot of briefing room or ready room scenes, and it tended to be overdone and boring after a time.
No, no, no. Perfect example is "Where Silence Has Lease". That conference room scene is appalling. "There's an alien out there that wants to kill us...what do we do? LET'S TALK ABOUT IT FOR 20 MINUTES!".
Kirk would have had that thing handled in half the time.
This is something that highlights my point. Not saying all of TNG was like that, but when I watched episodes as they aired, these scenes would have me wondering why they're sitting in the briefing room for so long!
Oh yeah? [Samuel L. Jackson] What do you know about it, muthafucka![/Samuel L. Jackson].
Yeah, you really wonder who wrote that stuff!
Some guy who had literally never before written a TV script in his life.
It's sobering to see that, for the first time, when it's being broadcast as an episode of a real TV series. Some watching from between one's fingers.
Meetings have a terrible effect on productivity and the pace of a dramatic TV show.
"We don't know how to do this exposition bit... so let's sit and talk!"
"We don't know how to do this exposition bit... so let's sit and talk!"
