Discovery in Variety
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Especially, as I pointed out the other day, since everything else is blue. There's just too much.
Over-saturation of a single color can create very powerful imagery, and is often used to great effect. But it's almost always limited to highlight a single scene, which is why it does look good in some of the limited shots we've seen so far.
But this is the primary set of a television show. It what people are going to see most week in and week out, and I guarantee people are going to quickly grow tired of it.
It's just a bad design.
Like @Cake says, the blue displays are kind of a given because "blue holographic displays" have just become part of pop-skiffy nomenclature. They were blue in Kelvin stuff too. But the nuPrise bridge had a lot of other contrasting color. More importantly though, they were films--and not meant to be viewed week after week.
It's like one person said "Well the displays will be blue, obviously." And someone else said "Let's make the walls and consoles bluish gray with a lot of yellowish/natural strip lighting because Amber and Teal." And the last person said "Let's make the unis blue because She's related to Spock and icy and cold and isolated and calm and all that stuff." And they never really put any thought on how it all fitted together.
At some point, the art has to concede to practicality.
That's unobservant excuse-making.
Nope. No excuses here. They're creating an image.
To carry on your Apple example, the outside of the store might be white but the inside of the store has many different colors. You have phones on display that are a variable amount of color, the Apple associates wear blue, and the screens on the wall are not all white. The same is said at Target. It's red on the outside but it's not all red on the inside.
With Discovery, everything is blue other than the outside of the ship. There is no vibrancy, nothing really stands out. When you go All one color, it's not memorable. Now it could be as the season goes on and we see things in action, but just because you have a dominant one color doesn't mean they can't have a multitude of other colors.
The Bridge is Bronze'ish with some blue lighting.
Exactly so. Saying "branding" doesn't magically explain away monotonous choices under the cover of consistency. It's excuse-making and doesn't sound knowledgably sophisticated in the way the poster might imagine.
It still looked very blue to me.
Not true. There's other colors in the ship too. It's about the image. Branding. You always know it as Discovery.
Nope.
We've barely even seen the ship and every single picture I have seen of Discovery is mostly blue.
And what part of my post was not true. Maybe I should visit the Apple stores and targets where you are.
That wireframe engine room looks like the engine room from the TNG movies.
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